{"id":246,"date":"2009-05-01T08:08:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=246"},"modified":"2012-05-04T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T22:52:33","slug":"the-invisible-hand-of-the-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2009\/05\/01\/the-invisible-hand-of-the-toddler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Hand of the Toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/finnegan\/images\/tinypix\/plutocrat.gif\" height=\"163\" width=\"160\" align=\"left\"> Yesterday morning, I found myself in the kitchen with Finn (doing his typical let&#8217;s-grab-grownup-knees thing) while Margot was in the living room seeking some Kleenex.  &#8220;Finny,&#8221; I said, handing him a box of tissues, &#8220;Bring to mama?  Give to mom?&#8221;  And off he toddled, bringing her the box.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted (having freed my knees &#038; gotten out of the task myself), and I said to Margot, &#8220;This marks my first use of Finn as an economic implement!&#8221;  Way to go, kiddo, contributing to family welfare.  (Just let&#8217;s make sure Kathy Lee Gifford doesn&#8217;t read this post &#038; start recruiting him as a future sweatshop employee!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, I found myself in the kitchen with Finn (doing his typical let&#8217;s-grab-grownup-knees thing) while Margot was in the living room seeking some Kleenex. &#8220;Finny,&#8221; I said, handing him a box of tissues, &#8220;Bring to mama? Give to mom?&#8221; And off he toddled, bringing her the box. I was delighted (having freed my knees [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}