{"id":4812,"date":"2013-06-19T22:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2013\/06\/19\/offbeat-monologues-in-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T22:42:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:42:39","slug":"offbeat-monologues-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2013\/06\/19\/offbeat-monologues-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Offbeat Monologues in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Monologist.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Monologist\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4814\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Monologist.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Monologist-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For some reason a couple of months ago, Finn decided that once a month, Mom-O should do a sleepover in his room (cuddling with him all night). Never one to be left out, Henry decided that he should get a similar arrangement with Dad-O, and thus on Monday night we each headed to one of the dudes&#8217; rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Henry persuaded me quite foolishly to agree to stay in his room after I tucked him in, doing &#8220;homework&#8221; on my laptop in the lower bunk. Even after I shut its lid, he was so jazzed about my presence that he couldn&#8217;t stop monologuing into the darkness. Later I jotted down some of his bizarre utterances:<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dad-O, why do you love Manti Te&#8217;o so much?<\/li>\n<li><em>I<\/em> love Manti Te&#8217;o, too. We all do, &#8217;cause we&#8217;re Irish people.<\/li>\n<li>[singing] I just <em>haaate<\/em> my <em>daaad<\/em> doing home-<em>worrrrk<\/em>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Your computer keeps winking at me!<\/li>\n<li>When do construction workers build volcanoes?<\/li>\n<li>Lava &amp; magma are cousins.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes when smoke detectors get dusty, they freak out.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m playing tricks with that light [crossing his eyes]. Do you see??<\/li>\n<li>Air conditioning sprays out ghosts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so on, and on, for hours. I was of course tired, trapped, and frustrated (just go to bed, Goonie!!). And yet I finally just laid back &amp; resolve to enjoy the ride. We won&#8217;t have the wee man just like this for long. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason a couple of months ago, Finn decided that once a month, Mom-O should do a sleepover in his room (cuddling with him all night). Never one to be left out, Henry decided that he should get a similar arrangement with Dad-O, and thus on Monday night we each headed to one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","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=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}