{"id":4240,"date":"2015-11-17T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:33:14","slug":"nervous-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/nervous-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Nervous Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the way up to bed tonight:<\/p>\n

Maggie: Mama, will you be a monster?<\/p>\n

Mama: Sure! Roarrrrrrr!<\/p>\n

Maggie, looking nervous: Wait! Um, can I be a monster too?<\/p>\n

Mama: Sure!<\/p>\n

Maggie: Ok, since we are both monsters, we can touch each other.<\/p>\n

Mama: Ok…<\/p>\n

Maggie: Let’s hold hands on our way upstairs.<\/p>\n

Mama and Maggie, holding hands: ROARRRRRR!<\/p>\n

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Update\u2014the following night, with Sarah out of town:<\/p>\n

Maggie: Daddy, play monster!<\/p>\n

Daddy: Ok. Roaarrrr!!!<\/p>\n

Maggie squeals, makes it half way up the stairs, and says, “Wait! I’m a monster too!”<\/p>\n

We hold hands the rest of the way, roaring together.<\/p>\n

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Update\u2014yet another night:<\/p>\n

Maggie: You know what? I’m super tired so I runned out of energy. That’s why I don’t want to play monster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the way up to bed tonight: Maggie: Mama, will you be a monster? Mama: Sure! Roarrrrrrr! Maggie, looking nervous: Wait! Um, can I be a monster too? Mama: Sure! Maggie: Ok, since we are both monsters, we can touch each other. Mama: Ok… Maggie: Let’s hold hands on our way upstairs. Mama and Maggie, … Continue reading Nervous Monster<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[81,67],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maggie","tag-maggie","tag-maggie-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7507,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/7507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}