{"id":5237,"date":"2013-12-20T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2013-12-20T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:45:52","slug":"a-caroling-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2013\/12\/20\/a-caroling-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"A caroling squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that moment near the end of a very long flight, where your plane is floating over the runway &#038; you want nothing more for it just to touch down so you can get on with your life, and yet it seems to hover endlessly? That&#8217;s how putting the boys down for the night can feel: So close to relief, yet so far away.<\/p>\n<p>Thus the other night I was right at the proverbial finish line, having deflected the boys back into bed for the last time, when Finn announced, &#8220;Wait, Dad-O! I have songs, with hand gestures!!&#8221; He was so excited to show off his moves for the upcoming holiday celebration at school, and though the timing of his reveal was pretty terrible, he put on a heck of a late-night, top-bunk show for Henry &#038; me.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can check out the whole class singing Christmas &#038; Hanukkah songs in English &#038; Spanish. Fair warning: It&#8217;s one of those stereotypically terrible parental videos, shot from the back of a crowded room in which one can barely see the kid. Look for Finn on the right-hand side right by the wall. (Full-screen viewing recommended. Hit the little button in the lower-right corner of the video, Mom &#038; Dad. :-))<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"531\" height=\"398\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7LjRIJImpno\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For a much more personal performance, check out Finn&#8217;s reenactment by our Christmas tree:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"531\" height=\"398\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wXF3sMtUGRw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that moment near the end of a very long flight, where your plane is floating over the runway &#038; you want nothing more for it just to touch down so you can get on with your life, and yet it seems to hover endlessly? That&#8217;s how putting the boys down for the night [&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":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","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=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5260,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}