{"id":33294,"date":"2014-04-25T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2014-04-25T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T12:48:07","slug":"i-dont-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2014\/04\/25\/i-dont-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t think so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since my oldest son <a href=\"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=2069\">purchased his Nook tablet<\/a>, he and his mom have been in a tug-of-war over when he&#8217;s allowed to use it. We have strict limits on how much screen time the kids are allowed, and she has additional restrictions on the tablet. I&#8217;m a little more easygoing when it comes to tablet-time, but parents have to back up parents, so I&#8217;ve been dragged into the fray.<\/p>\n<p>The other evening, he was showing me a game on the tablet when his mom announced that it was time for bed.<\/p>\n<p>He put his tablet down and he and his brother headed for their rooms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Showers!&#8221; my wife called. &#8220;Don&#8217;t forget showers!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, in a moment of true irony, she went back to her office to work on her computer.<\/p>\n<p>My son poked his head out of his room, looked around, then walked into the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting my tablet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For your shower?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He blinked at me, glanced at his room, then looked at me again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cause I&#8217;m thinking that using your tablet in the shower might not be such a good idea,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>He let out a dramatic sigh, then turned to go back to his room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being an 11-year old can be so hard sometimes&#8230; Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[118,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33294","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-8F0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33294","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=33294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}