{"id":3860,"date":"2007-05-03T21:14:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T05:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/2007\/05\/03\/pretend-men-tell-no-tales\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T21:14:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T05:14:55","slug":"pretend-men-tell-no-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2007\/05\/03\/pretend-men-tell-no-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretend men tell no tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Monkey hands me a beanbag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um, thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a flyer,&#8221; she said, and bounces off to the living room, where she has arranged a dozen of her stuffed animals on chairs and the couch. She places a beanbag in front of each animal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m passing out flyers to all my animal friends,&#8221; she explains, in case I hadn&#8217;t figured this out on my own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s great, honey,&#8221; I say, wondering where my daughter got the idea to pass out flyers, hoping that she is playing political activist and not Jehovah&#8217;s Witness or guerilla marketer. &#8220;What do the flyers say?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She stops and looks at me with as much disdain as a three year-old can muster. &#8220;Pretend things don&#8217;t say anything, Dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monkey hands me a beanbag. &#8220;Um, thanks.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s a flyer,&#8221; she said, and bounces off to the living room, where she has arranged a dozen of her stuffed animals on chairs and the couch. She places a beanbag in front of each animal. &#8220;I&#8217;m passing out flyers to all my animal friends,&#8221; she explains, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[142],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-10g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}