{"id":716,"date":"2005-02-16T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2005\/02\/signs-point-to-yes.html"},"modified":"2005-02-16T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T15:43:00","slug":"signs-point-to-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2005\/02\/signs-point-to-yes.html","title":{"rendered":"Signs Point to Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided that trying to have conversations with my son is really like trying to have a conversation with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00001ZWV7\/jennyspage-20\">Magic 8 Ball<\/a> (Oooo, find out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanttula.com\/exhibits\/8ball\/index.htm\">secrets of the Magic Eight Ball<\/a>!). I always get one of six answers from him, and it seems to be 100 percent, completely random which response I&#8217;ll get. For instance, a questions as simple as, &#8220;Doodles, would you like to put on your jacket?&#8221; can elicit:<\/p>\n<p>1) Yeah&#8211;Note, this has no bearing on what the question was and he shows surprise when I try to follow through with whatever action I asked about.<br \/>2) No&#8211;Usually this answer is dead on, accompanied by violent shaking of the head.<br \/>3) No Reply&#8211;This is accompanied by a willful turn of the head as my child ignores me to run across the room and become suddenly busy elsewhere.<br \/>4) Reply Hazy&#8211;This comes when I ask my child a question, he looks me straight in the eye and responds in some babble that I have yet to decode. It&#8217;s usually a very long explanation and at the end of it, he looks up at me expectantly and hopefully, waiting for my response to which I generally shrug and hand him some Goldfish.<br \/>5) Bish&#8211;No clue as to what this is. It&#8217;s said in great earnest, frequently and neither Adam nor I can interpret it. <br \/>6) Up!&#8211;Said when Doodles doesn&#8217;t give a hoot to what we asked but he wants yet another Barney book read.<\/p>\n<p>Smarter than a monkey, almost. Smarter than a Magic 8 Ball? I long for the day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided that trying to have conversations with my son is really like trying to have a conversation with a Magic 8 Ball (Oooo, find out the secrets of the Magic Eight Ball!). I always get one of six answers from him, and it seems to be 100 percent, completely random which response I&#8217;ll get. [&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":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}