{"id":1776,"date":"2005-11-25T22:15:21","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1776.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"what-are-they-showing-these-kids-at-nursery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/11\/25\/what-are-they-showing-these-kids-at-nursery\/","title":{"rendered":"What are they showing these kids at nursery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>As I arrived home one evening this week&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Alex:<\/b> <i>(Running grinning down the stairs with a piece of plastic tube in his hands.)<\/i>  Dad! Dad!  This is my boomstick!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106308\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2005\/11\/boomstick.jpg\" alt=\"This is my boomstick\" style=\"border:1px dotted black;padding:4px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Me:<\/b> Your <em>boomstick<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><b>Alex:<\/b> <i>(Brandishing the plastic tube proudly)<\/i> Yeah!<\/p>\n<p><b>Me:<\/b> Your boomstick.  Um&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><b>Abi:<\/b> <i>(Calling through from the living room)<\/i>  It&#8217;s his <em>broomstick<\/em>.  He&#8217;s Harry Potter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0241527\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2005\/11\/broomstick.jpg\" alt=\"This is my broomstick\" style=\"border:1px dotted black;padding:4px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Me:<\/b> Ohhhkay.<\/p>\n<p><small>(For the uninitiated, here is the full quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106308\/\"><i>Army Of Darkness<\/i><\/a>: &#8220;Now listen up, you primitive screwheads. See this? This&#8230; is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart&#8217;s top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That&#8217;s right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It&#8217;s got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That&#8217;s right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You <em>got<\/em> that?&#8221;)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I arrived home one evening this week&#8230; Alex: (Running grinning down the stairs with a piece of plastic tube in his hands.) Dad! Dad! This is my boomstick! Me: Your boomstick? Alex: (Brandishing the plastic tube proudly) Yeah! Me: Your boomstick. Um&#8230;.. Abi: (Calling through from the living room) It&#8217;s his broomstick. He&#8217;s Harry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/11\/25\/what-are-they-showing-these-kids-at-nursery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What are they showing these kids at nursery?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}