{"id":2262,"date":"2014-04-21T07:14:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T12:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2014-04-21T07:14:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T12:14:42","slug":"time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2014\/04\/21\/time-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the way to Daytona this past Easter, I made the mistake of bringing my tablet. It was a mistake because if the kids know there’s a tablet in the car, all they want to do is play video games.<\/p>\n

“Not till we’re on the highway,” I said, putting the tablet under my leg. My wife was driving, with her dad in the passenger seat. I was in back with the kids.<\/p>\n

“And you have to stop long before we get to Nana’s,” my wife added.<\/p>\n

“Okay,” my oldest son said.<\/p>\n

“What should we do now?” his little brother asked.<\/p>\n

Of course, that launched a game of If You Had A<\/a>. The miles rolled by as we told stories and talked. Before we knew it, we were leaving the highway and driving into Daytona. My oldest son suddenly looked panicked.<\/p>\n

“Wait!” he said. “What about the tablet?”<\/p>\n

I’d completely forgotten about it.<\/p>\n

“We have to play,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Not now,” his mom said. “We’re too close.”<\/p>\n

Both boys glared at me, their eyes narrow and accusing.<\/p>\n

“I forgot!” I said.<\/p>\n

They didn’t believe me.<\/p>\n

“We were playing a game,” I insisted. “The tablet didn’t even occur to me.”<\/p>\n

It really didn’t, but, to be honest, I’m glad it didn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video game or storytelling game? I bet you can guess which one I’d pick…<\/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-2262","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-Au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","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=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}