{"id":2467,"date":"2014-12-08T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2014-12-08T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:56:09","slug":"intern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2014\/12\/08\/intern\/","title":{"rendered":"Intern"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in a meeting on Friday when I felt my phone vibrate. I glanced discreetly down, then excused myself. “Sorry, it’s my ten year old. I’ll be right back.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The kids have phones specifically for emergency situations, and they don’t misuse them. When they call me, they have priority over just about everything else.<\/p>\n

Once I was outside the meeting, I answered the phone. “Is everything all right?”<\/p>\n

“I just found out my intern is leaving!”<\/p>\n

“Um… You have an intern?”<\/p>\n

“She’s leaving! Tomorrow is her last day. We have to get her something.”<\/p>\n

“Okay,” I said, trying to figure out the joke. I was fairly certain that my youngest son did not have an intern. “What’s your intern’s name?”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Da-ad! I’m serious.”<\/p>\n

“Just tell me what she does.”<\/p>\n

“Teaches,” he said exasperated.<\/p>\n

Ah-ha. Now, I understood. His teachers have interns who work with them. One of these interns was leaving, and he was panicked because he wanted to make sure to get her a going away present.<\/p>\n

“Got it,” I said. “No worries. We’ll get her something tonight.”<\/p>\n

“Okay.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who knew they had interns? I sure didn’t. 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":[122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6DpYi-intern","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","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=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}