{"id":1025,"date":"2007-09-14T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2007-09-14T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T16:32:03","slug":"six-oaths-of-the-virtuous-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/09\/14\/six-oaths-of-the-virtuous-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Six oaths of the virtuous child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might be familiar with the life and work of <a href=\"http:\/\/areasofmyexpertise.blogspot.com\/\">John Hodgman<\/a>.  If you&#8217;re not, I encourage you to seek out his teachings and live by them.  As for myself, I plan to acquaint Ava with the six oaths of the virtuous child just as soon as she&#8217;s able to understand what an oath is.  Or virtue, for that matter.  They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today shall not be wasted.  I shall rise before the sun so that I may then watch my family as they slumber, with intent, waiting eyes.<\/li>\n<li>I shall honor my mother today, and I shall tell father he is powerful.<\/li>\n<li>Today I shall be clean.  I shall not touch my teeth, knowing that the oils of my skin shall cause them to disintegrate.  I shall instead hone them, with a good steel, twice after prayers.<\/li>\n<li>I shall be a faithful child, and I shall ever make science my enemy.  Also, eels.<\/li>\n<li>At day, I shall perform my chores and duties happily.  And if I see an eel, I shall kill it.<\/li>\n<li>At night, I shall dream of more labor, and in my sleep I shall smile with sharpened teeth, knowing that today has not been wasted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope I got those cut points right.  It&#8217;s difficult to tell from the audio book.  I&#8217;ll have to check my hard copy, if I can find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might be familiar with the life and work of John Hodgman. If you&#8217;re not, I encourage you to seek out his teachings and live by them. As for myself, I plan to acquaint Ava with the six oaths of the virtuous child just as soon as she&#8217;s able to understand what an [&hellip;]<\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-gx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}