{"id":2120,"date":"2010-03-13T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2010-03-13T16:42:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T20:42:58","slug":"caels-phobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/caels-phobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cael&#8217;s Phobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Cael and Nikki and I were driving in the van, and Cael announced that he has a phobia.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep in mind, he&#8217;s 6, so we were pretty interested to hear what kind of self proclaimed phobia he could have.\u00c2\u00a0 He eloquently announced:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m scared of things with sharp teeth that jump out at you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that many of us would disagree with that one, buddy.\u00c2\u00a0 Least of all this guy, who was sitting at his computer at 2am in his home, and was<a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2010\/03\/12\/13203971-qmi.html?cid=rssnewsweird%20news\" target=\"_blank\"> bitten on the hand<\/a> by a 3 foot King snake that had managed to escape from his neighbour&#8217;s house.  He then had the presence of mind to capture the snake before getting 911 assistance.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s taking it to another level of pants-shitting terror, methinks.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we have this tragic story of a little boy who would have done well to have a phobia like Cael&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"430\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/themes\/common\/assets\/onn_embed\/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FSNAKE_ATTACK_ARTICLE.jpg&#038;videoid=101196&#038;title=Boy%E2%80%99s%20Tragic%20Death%20Could%20Have%20Happened%20To%20Any%20Family%20With%2020-Foot%20Pet%20Python\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/boy_s_tragic_death_could_have?utm_source=videoembed\">Boy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tragic Death Could Have Happened To Any Family With 20-Foot Pet Python<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Cael and Nikki and I were driving in the van, and Cael announced that he has a phobia.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep in mind, he&#8217;s 6, so we were pretty interested to hear what kind of self proclaimed phobia he could have.\u00c2\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/caels-phobia\/\">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":[2,8],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-video-diversions","tag-phobias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-yc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","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=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}