{"id":1053,"date":"2008-02-08T13:13:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/children-in-tight-spots\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T13:13:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:13:23","slug":"children-in-tight-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/children-in-tight-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"Children in Tight Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well things like this\u00c2\u00a0are bound to happen eventually with two young boys.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday Quinn and Cael were leaving karate at the Kanata Rec Centre with Nikki and they were goofing off and went around the corner to the elevator.\u00c2\u00a0 Nikki was putting her coat on and had her back turned, so they managed to get the doors open and they went in.\u00c2\u00a0 When the doors started to close Quinn put his hand in between them and got pinched pretty hard.\u00c2\u00a0 The doors weren&#8217;t opening back up again and Nikki was trying to tell Quinn to push all of the buttons, but he was crying too hard.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say the doors finally opened and Nikki rescued the two (now very subdued) boys.\u00c2\u00a0 All is well, he is just a little bit bruised, but they probably will always remember when they got stuck in an elevator.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s these little lessons that will define their actions later.\u00c2\u00a0 Nikki asked Quinn what the lesson was that he learned and he tearfully said &#8220;To wait.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Not a bad thing to remember, generally.<\/p>\n<p>On that same note, <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2008\/02\/05\/4828541-ap.html\">here&#8217;s a story<\/a> about a lad who is very likely in the same boat, but maybe to larger degree.\u00c2\u00a0 A four year old boy crawled into his parent&#8217;s washing machine and managed to get wedged in between the agitator and the side with one knee jammed against his chest.\u00c2\u00a0 All efforts to free him failed, including firefighters taking the washer apart.\u00c2\u00a0 So, out come the jaws of life to cut the washer apart and free the boy.\u00c2\u00a0 He was fine, but I don&#8217;t think the washer was the same after that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well things like this\u00c2\u00a0are bound to happen eventually with two young boys.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday Quinn and Cael were leaving karate at the Kanata Rec Centre with Nikki and they were goofing off and went around the corner to the elevator.\u00c2\u00a0 Nikki &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/children-in-tight-spots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-gZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}