{"id":23,"date":"2010-02-12T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2010\/02\/olympic-tired-kids.html"},"modified":"2010-02-12T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:59:00","slug":"olympic-tired-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2010\/02\/olympic-tired-kids.html","title":{"rendered":"Olympic-Tired Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been suckered. It&#8217;s 7:59 p.m. and I&#8217;ve got two incredibly sleepy children next to me. But I made the mistake earlier of saying, &#8220;Hey, the Olympic opening ceremonies are on at 7:30. If you guys want to stay up late, you can watch it.&#8221; They, of course, took me up on the offer, and we started watching. <\/p>\n<p>Before we began, I said to Adam, &#8220;Did you hear about the luger?&#8221; &#8220;No,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Look it up. But don&#8217;t say anything. I don&#8217;t want it a topic of discussion.&#8221; What was I thinking? Doodles and I had a huge battle when I turned off the TV when Tom Brokaw said, &#8220;The footage you are about to see about the death of Georgian luge slider Nodar Kumaritashvili is graphic.&#8221; We had no choice but to explain to them about the accident. Pie keeps asking over and over, &#8220;So he went off the quarters?&#8221; &#8220;The course.&#8221; &#8220;So he died?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, he died.&#8221; &#8220;How did he die?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let me move on by saying the (male) sportscaster is interviewing snowboarder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/shaun_white_has_xtremely\">Shaun White<\/a>. Me: &#8220;Man, I wish I had a head of hair like him.&#8221; <br \/>Pie: &#8220;Him? That&#8217;s a guy?&#8221;<br \/>Me: &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<br \/>Pie: &#8220;How do you know?&#8221;<br \/>Me: &#8220;I just know.&#8221;<br \/>Pie: &#8220;Are those two people [Sean and the sportscaster] married?&#8221;<br \/>Me: &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So all this is happening, and I finally say to Adam, &#8220;What time, exactly, do these opening ceremonies start? I thought it was 7:30.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He does a little zing zing on his computer and then laughs at me. &#8220;Coverage of the opening ceremonies start at 7:30. But the opening ceremonies don&#8217;t start till 9.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Try telling my kids, &#8220;Nevermind! I was wrong!&#8221; So instead I have two already tired kids trying their best to make it up till 9. It&#8217;s not going to happen. But they&#8217;re giving it their all, although I predict Pie will be out in about 2.73 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>5. 4. 3. 2. 1. No, the ceremonies haven&#8217;t started. But Pie wins the gold medal in sleep. One down, one to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been suckered. It&#8217;s 7:59 p.m. and I&#8217;ve got two incredibly sleepy children next to me. But I made the mistake earlier of saying, &#8220;Hey, the Olympic opening ceremonies are on at 7:30. If you guys want to stay up late, you can watch it.&#8221; They, of course, took me up on the offer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,21],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doodles","tag-pie","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}