{"id":63,"date":"2005-08-24T11:31:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T11:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2005\/08\/24\/the-getaway\/"},"modified":"2005-08-24T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T11:31:02","slug":"the-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2005\/08\/24\/the-getaway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Getaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

In general, I try to avoid playing games that result in my chasing the kids. I much prefer games where they chase me<\/a>. However, every once in a while I do end up chasing one or both of the little guys.<\/p>\n

Tuesday evening we had the best chase scene yet.<\/p>\n

It was time for C to wash his hands for dinner. For us, washing hands involves me lifting him up so that he can reach the kitchen sink. Last night when I said "okay, time to wash hands" and walked towards him, he took off running.<\/p>\n

Our house really isn’t that big, so he really didn’t have anywhere to run to. He was just running away from me. Fortunately, my legs are longer than his – and I can see over the furniture and counters. I easily caught up with him.<\/p>\n

At which point he leapt on to his truck and zoomed away.<\/p>\n

By "car", I mean one of those plastic ride-along toys that has the child sitting on top and pushing with his feet. By "zoomed", I mean he was moving about half as fast as was before he got on to the truck..<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, he so clearly believed that his truck was actually "zooming" that I had no choice but to fall behind. I don’t remember letting him watch Dukes of Hazzard re-runs, but I certainly recognized when it was my turn to play the sheriff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In general, I try to avoid playing games that result in my chasing the kids. I much prefer games where they chase me. However, every once in a while I do end up chasing one or both of the little guys. Tuesday evening we had the best chase scene yet. It was time for C […]<\/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":[123,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-c"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-11","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}