{"id":685,"date":"2010-01-25T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2010-01-25T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:07:06","slug":"revealing-the-magic-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2010\/01\/25\/revealing-the-magic-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealing the Magic Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the few magic tricks I’ve mastered is the “pull something out of your child’s ear” classic. I do it so well, in fact, that it’s become the source of a running disagreement with the boys. I say that whatever comes out of their head belongs to me. They say it belongs to them.<\/p>\n

The other day, however, it seemed as though the whole thing was going to come to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n

“I know how you do that,” my youngest announced.<\/p>\n

“Oh yeah?” I asked.<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” he said. “And I know how you do it.”<\/p>\n

“How?” I asked.<\/p>\n

“You sneak it into our ear earlier, when we’re not paying attention.”<\/p>\n

“Oh yeah?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah. Like when we’re asleep or something. You sneak stuff into our ears, and then pull it out later.”<\/p>\n

“No,” I said, flashing back to a certain French Fry incident\u00a0\u00a0(click here to read it<\/a>), “I don’t think so.”<\/p>\n

“Hmm,” he said, still suspicious.<\/p>\n

Looks like get to enjoy pulling things from ears for at least a little while longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magic tricks can be tough to figure out, particularly when you’re only five years old.<\/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":[123,122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","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-b3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}