{"id":2942,"date":"2011-09-08T20:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T04:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2011-09-08T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T04:38:11","slug":"the-marrying-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/09\/08\/the-marrying-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marrying Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>File under “Things That’s Embarrass the Guys in a Few Years.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Lately we’ve been spending a good bit of time with our friends the Wiggins, and I’ve advised dad Michael: Hide your ladies!<\/em><\/p>\n

Recently Margot walked by Finn’s room and heard him singing in his bed, crooning what sounded like “The Ju-li-aaaan-a Song.” When asked to repeat it, he turned a little sheepish. Later, though, he grew more bold: “Mom-O,” he announced, “I’m going to marry<\/em> Juliana!” Margot explained that Juliana is already married to Michael, but Finn was unfazed. “That’s okay,” he said, “In a week or so, when I’m a man, I’ll marry Juliana.” (Knowing this “marrying” stuff–whatever it is–gets a laugh, he now claims he’ll marry Michael, marry his brother, etc.)<\/p>\n

Henry’s a little more realistic, setting his sights on little Hazel. He and I had a fun little exchange a few weeks ago as I entered his bedroom:<\/p>\n

Henry, waking, greets me: “Who is it? Is it ladies?”
\nMe: “No, it’s Dad-O.”
\nH: “Oh. I was dreaming\u2026 of ladies\u2026 ladies in my crib.”<\/p>\n

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Random bonus: My German colleagues sometimes say <\/em>“Mach’ keine Fisimatenten,” meaning don’t do anything stupid\/any nonsense that could lead to harm. Apparently the phrase dates back to when occupying French soldiers would call out to German fr\u00e4uleins, inviting them to <\/em>“Visite ma tente” (visit my tent). Thus German parents told them not to do any <\/em>“Fisimatenten”. I thought of this phrase when Henry was showing Hazel the tent that’s set up in the basement. No <\/em>fisimatenten, little lady!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File under “Things That’s Embarrass the Guys in a Few Years.” Lately we’ve been spending a good bit of time with our friends the Wiggins, and I’ve advised dad Michael: Hide your ladies! Recently Margot walked by Finn’s room and heard him singing in his bed, crooning what sounded like “The Ju-li-aaaan-a Song.” When asked […]<\/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-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}