{"id":282,"date":"2004-08-25T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T09:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2012-02-09T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:28:49","slug":"things-ive-learned-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/things-ive-learned-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;ve learned this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things I&#8217;ve learned this week:<\/p>\n<p>1. Purple crayons are most fun when used on windows, walls, counters, cupboards, tables and floors.<\/p>\n<p>2. Purple crayon comes off of said surfaces with Fantastik with bleach and Windex<\/p>\n<p>3. 8 years olds interpret &#8220;watch your brother&#8221; as &#8220;Watch TV&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4. 2 year olds pay close attention to where the crayons are kept.<\/p>\n<p>5. 2 year olds are very aware of when Mommy is around vs. when 8 year olds are in charge.<\/p>\n<p>6. A trip to Andrew  Hayden Park can be quickly replaced with Fantastik with Bleach and a rag.<\/p>\n<p>7. 2 year olds like to put ride-on toys on the couch and practice pop-a-wheelies.<\/p>\n<p>8. Above event can be done inside of 20 seconds. (enough time to take infant upstairs and come back for the second one)<\/p>\n<p>9. Husbands find great composure when being told of numbers 1-8 out of fear of death.<\/p>\n<p>10. 7 month olds can pull chest hair with their toes.  (Wives find great composure when being told of #10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I&#8217;ve learned this week: 1. Purple crayons are most fun when used on windows, walls, counters, cupboards, tables and floors. 2. Purple crayon comes off of said surfaces with Fantastik with bleach and Windex 3. 8 years olds interpret &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/things-ive-learned-this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-4y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}