{"id":1469,"date":"2010-08-05T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2010-08-12T12:26:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T20:26:45","slug":"babyslang-summer-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2010\/08\/05\/babyslang-summer-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Babyslang: Summer 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/decoder_ring_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1478\" \/>Time to fire up the Nack Family Secret Decoder Ring&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chasando<\/strong>: Chasing. We&#8217;ve corrupted Finn&#8217;s nascent knowledge of Spanish, teaching him that the suffix &#8220;-ando&#8221; equals &#8220;-ing.&#8221; Thus he requests a little post-bath roughhousing by saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s do some <em>chasando!!&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Duck furniture<\/strong>: Dirt clods. Recently Mom-O &amp; Finn used a big &#8220;lopper&#8221; to lop off a root growing behind our garage. Somehow Finn decided that the root was part of a duck house, and that the ducks took off, leaving behind their furniture (clumps of dirt). This leads to weird incidents like Finn running up, saying &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna blast you with some duck furniture!,&#8221; and then slamming dirt clods into my knee.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sand Potato<\/strong>: aka The City Formerly Known as San Mateo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hoot bags<\/strong>: Backpack. Our friend Hughes (Hoot) and I have similar backpacks, so when I pulled mine out of storage, Finn said, &#8220;Dad-O&#8217;s got a Hoot bag!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heavy Duty\/Mega Duty<\/strong>: Blankets. Long ago Finn and I dubbed his green wool blanked &#8220;Heavy Duty,&#8221; and not long ago the even bigger wool blanket from Grandma Liggett became &#8220;Mega Duty.&#8221; We say that the blankets are brothers, or &#8220;Two Duties, Heavy &amp; Mega.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Metal nudists<\/strong>: Rodin sculptures up at Stanford.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to fire up the Nack Family Secret Decoder Ring&#8230; Chasando: Chasing. We&#8217;ve corrupted Finn&#8217;s nascent knowledge of Spanish, teaching him that the suffix &#8220;-ando&#8221; equals &#8220;-ing.&#8221; Thus he requests a little post-bath roughhousing by saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s do some chasando!!&#8221; Duck furniture: Dirt clods. Recently Mom-O &amp; Finn used a big &#8220;lopper&#8221; to lop off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babyslang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}