{"id":2254,"date":"2014-04-14T07:16:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:16:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:16:58","slug":"being-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2014\/04\/14\/being-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

On St. Patrick’s Day, my oldest son took me to see the Lego movie (click here for details<\/a>). It’s a really good movie, not just because it’s funny and creative, but because it’s about a father and son trying to relate to each other through their play. Yes, the theme song (“everything is awesome”) gets annoying, but what kid’s movie doesn’t have an annoying song?<\/p>\n

The next morning, when I came up to work, I noticed my stack of comic books. I’ve been collecting them since I was little, and I have accumulated a fair number. They’re not in mint condition or sleeved or anything like that. It’s just a pile of comic books.<\/p>\n

Even so, the ten-year old me had guarded these comics like they were a sacred treasure. I watched over them like a hawk, guarding them from my brother, and only sharing them with friends occasionally. They could come and read with me, but they couldn’t take them home.<\/p>\n

Seeing them the morning after the Lego movie, I suddenly realized that I’d never shared with my kids. When it came to comics, the ten-year old me was still in charge.<\/p>\n

I grabbed a big old plastic storage box, stacked the comics carefully in it and carried them downstairs.<\/p>\n

“Okay, guys,” I said. “Here’s the rule. When you’re done, put them back in the box. These things fall apart incredibly easily, so let’s take care of them.”<\/p>\n

The kids dove into the comics with a satisfying excitement, and have been reading them ever since. They’re not being very disciplined about putting them back into the plastic box, but, I hadn’t really expected them to.<\/p>\n

If the comics get destroyed, they get destroyed. It’s not every day a dad has a chance to be awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When was the last time you had a chance to be awesome? Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[118,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-n"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-Am","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}