{"id":33145,"date":"2007-03-14T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T13:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/03\/14\/nap-nap-nap\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T13:35:02","slug":"nap-nap-nap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/03\/14\/nap-nap-nap\/","title":{"rendered":"Nap, nap, nap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite <a title=\"Patient 0\" href=\"\/?p=20&#038;phpMyAdmin=y7-wyFW16QINBVwSxwbVWn-cg16\">our history<\/a>, we still enjoy tapping on the table. In fact, lately I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the power of suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>This past Sunday, I was really hoping to take a nap. The weather was absolutely perfect for stretching out in&nbsp;the hammock and letting the world slip by. The boys, however, weren&#8217;t displaying even the slightest signs of being sleepy. As lunch drew to a close, I found myself frantically searching for some way of getting to that hammock.<\/p>\n<p>I tapped out a beat on the kitchen table. It wasn&#8217;t really complicated, but it got their attention.&nbsp; After I&#8217;d been through it a few times, I&nbsp;interrupted it to give a little chant of &#8220;Nap, Nap, Nap,&#8221; and then I continued.<\/p>\n<p>They giggled. The next time it came around, I leaned in towards C and&nbsp;pointed each time I said &#8220;Nap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He giggled some more. The next time, instead of saying anything, I pointed at him. He caught the beat and said &#8220;Nap, Nap, Nap&#8221; in time. Then he started pounding out his own little rhythm on the table. <\/p>\n<p>The next time the &#8220;Nap&#8221;s came around I pointed at N. <\/p>\n<p>He laughed, shook his head, and said &#8220;No, No, No&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then they both collapsed laughing. <\/p>\n<p>So much for my subliminal advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite our history, we still enjoy tapping on the table. In fact, lately I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the power of suggestion. This past Sunday, I was really hoping to take a nap. The weather was absolutely perfect for stretching out in&nbsp;the hammock and letting the world slip by. The boys, however, weren&#8217;t displaying even the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[123,118,122,121,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-the-kids","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-8CB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145","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=33145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}