{"id":33246,"date":"2008-04-09T14:17:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2008\/04\/09\/a-golden-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:17:46","slug":"a-golden-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2008\/04\/09\/a-golden-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Golden Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you seen those razor scooters? They’re shiny metal with tiny plastic wheels that move incredibly smoothly. A few years back, they were ridiculously expensive. These days, you can find them for about $20 (here’s the manufacturer’s website<\/a>). Each of our kids has one, and they absolutely love them. <\/p>\n

We even let them ride in the house, subject to two rules: they’re not allowed to run into anything or anyone; and they have to put them away when they’re done. Stepping on one of those things really hurts.<\/p>\n

One day last week, I came downstairs to get a drink of water. As I was at the sink filling my glass, I noticed the three-year-old’s scooter lying on the den floor. Hearing him playing in his room, I gave a shout out to him to come put his scooter away.<\/p>\n

Almost immediately, I saw him come running out to his room – completely naked and smiling like a pumpkin. He grabbed his scooter and started to get on, but his momma suddenly loomed out of nowhere, “you go get some clothes on right now, mister!”<\/p>\n

“Hold on, momma!” I interrupted. “It’s not every day that you get a chance like this!”<\/p>\n

She looked down at her naked son standing hopefully on his scooter, and then started to laugh. “Okay, okay!”<\/p>\n

With a yahoo, the little guy took off, zooming around the house a few times before putting it away.<\/p>\n

Hey, don’t look at me like that. When was the last time you had a chance to ride a scooter in the nude?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you seen those razor scooters? They’re shiny metal with tiny plastic wheels that move incredibly smoothly. A few years back, they were ridiculously expensive. These days, you can find them for about $20 (here’s the manufacturer’s website). Each of our kids has one, and they absolutely love them. We even let them ride in […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-n"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-8Ee","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33246","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=33246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}