My oldest son is becoming more and more interested in football. He’s always enjoyed throwing the ball around, and has brought up the subject of playing for his school a few times.<\/p>\n
His mom, however, is completely against it. Football is simply not an option.<\/p>\n
The other night, as I was saying goodnight to him, he asked me, “Dad, if I were to play football, what position do you think I’d be best at.”<\/p>\n
“Quarterback,” I said. “You throw a great spiral, have a strong arm and good accuracy. In soccer, you’re able to see the field while you play and know where your teammates are. All those things are perfect for a quarterback.”<\/p>\n
He seemed pretty happy with that answer. “Do you think I could play in high school?”<\/p>\n
“You know your mom’s opinion. There’s just no way.”<\/p>\n
“Okay, okay,” he said. “But what if she wasn’t around?”<\/p>\n
I stared at him for a few seconds. “You’re not allowed to kill your mom so you can play football.”<\/p>\n
“What?” he sat up. “No! I just want to know what you<\/em> think!”<\/p>\n “I think your mom doesn’t want you to play football.”<\/p>\n “Da-ad!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are certain questions that probably shouldn’t be asked. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[118,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-Et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","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=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}