{"id":4921,"date":"2013-08-18T14:17:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T22:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2013-08-18T14:17:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T22:17:52","slug":"transient-witticisms-microtunes-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2013\/08\/18\/transient-witticisms-microtunes-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Transient Witticisms: Microtunes Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Mischievous Henry starts edging out of the crosswalk: &#8220;Dad-O, I&#8217;m &#8216;Break-in&#8217;-the-<em>laaaaw<\/em>, break-in&#8217;-the-<em>laaaaw!!'&#8221;<\/em> (Judas Priest, Age 4. :-))<\/li>\n<li>The Barenaked Ladies come on the radio. &#8220;This is a <em>dork<\/em> singing!&#8221; declares Henry.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think these guys <em>are<\/em> Talking Heads, Dad-O,&#8221; says Finn. &#8220;I think they&#8217;re just Talking Scalps.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Finn: &#8220;Why are they called &#8216;U2&#8217;?&#8221;<br \/>Me: &#8220;Well, I dunno. The U2 was a cool airplane\u2026&#8221;<br \/>Finn: &#8220;Was Bono homeless &amp; did he sleep in the airplane?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Listening to &#8220;Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing&#8221; with the boys. \u201cWhy did the baby do that, Dad-O? Why is he so naughty?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Finn\u2019s singing Styx\u2019s \u201cRenegade\u201d: \u201cThe meter maid, who had it made\u2026\u201d #misheardlyrics<\/li>\n<li>The lads are listening to The Clash:<br \/>Finn: &#8220;Henry, the casbah is a desert castle, and the jet fighters rock it with bullets.&#8221;<br \/>Henry: &#8220;Yeah, from their lungs!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Finn&#8217;s relating to &#8220;I Shot The Sheriff&#8221;: &#8220;It&#8217;s like when Jacobo attacks me at school &amp; I kick him in the face. That&#8217;s self-defense for me!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>On an airplane: &#8220;Dad-O, I thought I saw Johnny Cash out on the wing,&#8221; reports Finn, &#8220;but it was just the winglet.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Listening to the boys&#8217; <em>a cappella<\/em> duet of &#8220;Crazy Train&#8221; as they play Lego trains, I feel kinda great about my parenting. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Finn&#8217;s morning musical request: &#8220;How about the banana song by Barry Elefante?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Blasting &#8220;Sledgehammer&#8221; while your 3yo jumps around, &#8220;dancing&#8221; &amp; randomly hammering things, is a terrific morning kickoff.<\/li>\n<li>The boys keep donning underwear outside their regular clothes. I explain that&#8217;s only for crazy old ladies, like Madonna.<\/li>\n<li>The boys have renamed themselves &#8220;Lynyrd Skynyrd&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Billy Idol.&#8221; In related news, I really need to expose them to better music!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mischievous Henry starts edging out of the crosswalk: &#8220;Dad-O, I&#8217;m &#8216;Break-in&#8217;-the-laaaaw, break-in&#8217;-the-laaaaw!!&#8217;&#8221; (Judas Priest, Age 4. :-)) The Barenaked Ladies come on the radio. &#8220;This is a dork singing!&#8221; declares Henry. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think these guys are Talking Heads, Dad-O,&#8221; says Finn. &#8220;I think they&#8217;re just Talking Scalps.&#8221; Finn: &#8220;Why are they called &#8216;U2&#8217;?&#8221;Me: &#8220;Well, [&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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transient-witticisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921","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=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4986,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}