{"id":33237,"date":"2008-03-19T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2008\/03\/19\/should-it-be\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T14:17:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T14:17:01","slug":"should-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2008\/03\/19\/should-it-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Should it be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I may have mentioned before, I&#8217;ve had to get a little creative with my lullabies. Not having any experience with kids prior to my own, I didn&#8217;t know any of the traditional ones. I ended up stealing tunes from my own memory &#8211; things like &#8220;Let it Be&#8221; and the Spiderman theme song. They went over extremely well, if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, the kids decided it was time for me to take a nap. I&#8217;m not exactly why they decided this, but they guided me to the couch and had me lay down. C (the five year old) ran to grab me some blankets, while his little brother gathered up tons of stuffed animals and stacked them on me.<\/p>\n<p>Once I was sufficiently buried, they started singing me lullabies.&nbsp;C launched into a long rambling tune about butterflies and clouds and dragons and whatnot. It was very creative. Once he finished, he ran off, leaving his little brother to finish the job.<\/p>\n<p>N kneeled down next to the couch so his mouth was close to my ear. <br \/>Then he sang in the quietest voice you can imagine:<\/p>\n<p align=center><em>When I find myself in times of trouble,<br \/>Mother Mary comes to me,<br \/>Whisper words of wisdom. <br \/>&nbsp;Should it be, should it be.<br \/>&nbsp;Should it be, should it be?<br \/>&nbsp;Oh should it be, yeah, should it be?<br \/>&nbsp;Whisper words of wisdom:<br \/> should it be, should it be.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=left>I know, I know. Those lyrics aren&#8217;t exactly right. But hey, he&#8217;s only three. Just let it be. <\/p>\n<p align=left>Besides, I think I like his lyrics better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I may have mentioned before, I&#8217;ve had to get a little creative with my lullabies. Not having any experience with kids prior to my own, I didn&#8217;t know any of the traditional ones. I ended up stealing tunes from my own memory &#8211; things like &#8220;Let it Be&#8221; and the Spiderman theme song. They [&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":[123,122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-8E5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33237","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=33237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}