{"id":497,"date":"2008-09-01T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T11:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2008\/09\/01\/tarzan-vs-the-leopard\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T11:53:31","slug":"tarzan-vs-the-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2008\/09\/01\/tarzan-vs-the-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan vs. the Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"

We watched Tarzan (the Disney animated version) the other day. We had watched it once before<\/a>, but decided it was too scary. Now that the kids are older (4 and 6), I thought they would be able to handle it..<\/p>\n

I was right. They loved it. During fight scenes, they couldn’t keep still (especially the 6 year old), jumping up and down and leaning this way and that. During scary scenes, they either drifted back closer to me or climbed up into my lap.<\/p>\n

At one point in the movie, there is a fairly long battle between Tarzan and the vicious leopard who killed his parents. It’s an intense scene, where the advantage shifts back and forth several times. <\/p>\n

By the end of the fight, both kids were on their feet, fists clenched, jumping up and down and shouting.<\/p>\n

After it finished, my youngest gave a laugh of relief and turned to me. “I was rooting for Tarzan.”<\/p>\n

“Good. Me too.”<\/p>\n

Of course, it had never occured to me that cheering for the leopard was an option. I must be getting old and crusty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We watched Tarzan (the Disney animated version) the other day. We had watched it once before, but decided it was too scary. Now that the kids are older (4 and 6), I thought they would be able to handle it.. I was right. They loved it. During fight scenes, they couldn’t keep still (especially the […]<\/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-497","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-81","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}