{"id":2588,"date":"2011-10-25T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T15:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2011-10-25T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T15:24:27","slug":"you-are-as-old-as-you-think-you-might-be-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/you-are-as-old-as-you-think-you-might-be-kinda\/","title":{"rendered":"You are as old as you think you might be, kinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent breakfast conversation:<\/p>\n<p>Cael: &#8220;Would you say I am basically 8 years old?&#8221; (Cael turns 8 in January, and is rather eager to do so)<\/p>\n<p>Dad: &#8220;Not yet, buddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cael: &#8220;Am I mentally 8 years old?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quinn (choking down a spoonful of cereal to answer immediately): &#8220;You can just decide how old you want to be mentally, you can be 35 if you want.\u00c2\u00a0 Jeez.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope this translates well to the web, I laughed myself silly about this one.\u00c2\u00a0 It was Quinn&#8217;s semi-outraged, authoritative tone that did it to me.\u00c2\u00a0 My god, I am raising him into an exact replica of myself it seems.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully without the teenage acne though.\u00c2\u00a0 And finishing post secondary school would be good.\u00c2\u00a0 There are other traits that he could also do without, but that&#8217;s another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent breakfast conversation: Cael: &#8220;Would you say I am basically 8 years old?&#8221; (Cael turns 8 in January, and is rather eager to do so) Dad: &#8220;Not yet, buddy.&#8221; Cael: &#8220;Am I mentally 8 years old?&#8221; Quinn (choking down a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/you-are-as-old-as-you-think-you-might-be-kinda\/\">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],"tags":[332],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","tag-i-am-mentally-about-17"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-FK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","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=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}