{"id":33148,"date":"2007-04-11T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/04\/11\/guns\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T12:48:13","slug":"guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/04\/11\/guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the great ironies of life, our kids were given squirt guns as presents this past Easter.<\/p>\n<p>Since they&#8217;d never used squirt guns before, there was a bit of a learning curve. N, for example, kept wanting to pull the trigger with his thumb. In order to do this, he had to hold the gun in such a way that it was pointing directly at his face.<\/p>\n<p>This was somewhat upsetting for him. Every time he tried to squirt one of us, he&#8217;d get&nbsp;a stream of water in his face.<\/p>\n<p>After watching him shoot himself a couple of times, I called a brief timeout and walked over to help him out. I turned&nbsp;the gun&nbsp;around, put it properly in his hand, and then showed him how he could use two fingers (index and middle) to pull the trigger. His hands were a bit small to reach, but the two finger technique let him get enough leverage to squirt. That was why he&#8217;d been using his thumb.<\/p>\n<p>It was a real old-west style bonding moment: a father showing his son how to shoot a gun.We took a couple of shots together, and then he looked up at me and said, in his cutest two-year old voice,&nbsp;&#8221;Thanks, Daddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then he pointed the gun directly at my face and pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n<p>I think we need to put the guns away and <a title=Swords href=\"\/?p=291&#038;phpMyAdmin=y7-wyFW16QINBVwSxwbVWn-cg16\">stick to the swords<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the great ironies of life, our kids were given squirt guns as presents this past Easter. Since they&#8217;d never used squirt guns before, there was a bit of a learning curve. N, for example, kept wanting to pull the trigger with his thumb. In order to do this, he had to hold [&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":[122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33148","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-guns","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33148","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=33148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}