{"id":2950,"date":"2011-06-22T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T17:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2011-06-22T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T17:57:24","slug":"hes-got-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2011\/06\/22\/hes-got-it\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s got it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the kitchen (where else?) the other day when Emmett came running in.  He pointed to the skillet on the stove and asked, &#8220;Is hot, daddy?&#8221; in that cute, halting diction of his.  &#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s very hot,&#8221; I replied.  &#8220;OK,&#8221; he said, and turned to run back to the living room.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nJust before he was out of the kitchen, I said, &#8220;Hey, can you come give daddy a hug?&#8221;  Emmett stopped and looked back at me with an expression that indicated he wasn&#8217;t sure he wanted to take the time.  Yet he relented.  &#8220;OK.&#8221;  So I met him halfway and knelt beside him to give him a squeeze.  &#8220;Should I do a biiiiig hug, or a teeny, <em>tiny <\/em>hug?&#8221; I asked.  Emmett smiled, snuggled into me just a little, and said, &#8220;tiny hug.&#8221;  So I gave him his tiny hug and told him I loved him.  I looked into his smiling face and saw his eyes were twinkling with delight.  He reached out to fumble with my scraggly beard and said, &#8220;you happy.&#8221;  Like a declaration, not a question.  I said, &#8220;Yes, I <em>am <\/em>happy,&#8221; and I gave him the biiiiig hug, too, after all.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/heet_myser\/5785198016\/\" title=\"ecp windowBW by heet_myser, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2033\/5785198016_cb24ac309e_m.jpg?resize=185%2C240\" width=\"185\" height=\"240\" alt=\"ecp windowBW\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the kitchen (where else?) the other day when Emmett came running in. He pointed to the skillet on the stove and asked, &#8220;Is hot, daddy?&#8221; in that cute, halting diction of his. &#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s very hot,&#8221; I replied. &#8220;OK,&#8221; he said, and turned to run back to the living room.<\/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":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emmett"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-LA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","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=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}