{"id":966,"date":"2010-10-29T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.daddytales.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2010-10-29T09:33:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T14:33:32","slug":"waiting-to-be-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2010\/10\/29\/waiting-to-be-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting to be king"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I’m gonna be a mighty king,
\nso enemies beware!”<\/em><\/p>\n

With the little guy still recovering from surgery, I’m driving the kids to school instead of biking them in. We listen to a Disney CD on the way, singing along as we go.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never seen a king of beasts,
\nwith quite so little hair”<\/em><\/p>\n

On many of the songs, we each take a different part. On Chim-Chimnee, for example, I’m Bert.<\/p>\n

“I’m gonna be the mane event,
\nLike no king was before.
\nI’m brushing up on looking down,
\nI’m working on my roar!”<\/em><\/p>\n

On The Lion King song, though, the kids have unanimously appointed me to be Zazu.<\/p>\n

“Thus far, a very uninspiring thing.”<\/em><\/p>\n

What I don’t understand is how the heck I ended up being Zazu. How’d I miss out on being Mufasa? I clearly remember being Simba. Shouldn’t I be Mufasa?<\/p>\n

“Oh, I just can’t wait to be king!”<\/em><\/p>\n

I hate Zazu.<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween everyone!<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Here are some other Halloween stories you might get a kick out of:<\/p>\n

2008: Pockets<\/a>: Not precisely Halloween, this one is still pretty scary
\n2007:\u00a0 Flash<\/a>: The saddest Halloween story ever
\n2006: Lost<\/a>: Scary from a child’s perspective
\n2005:\u00a0 A Daddy’s Halloween<\/a>: The scariest Halloween story ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of Halloween, I present to you the second scariest DaddyTale I’ve ever written, along with a link to the scariest.<\/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":[118,122,119,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-c","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-funny","category-daddytales-sad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}