{"id":4374,"date":"2013-01-24T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2013-01-24T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:30:16","slug":"transient-witticisms-the-verbal-the-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2013\/01\/24\/transient-witticisms-the-verbal-the-physical\/","title":{"rendered":"Transient Witticisms: The Verbal &#038; The Physical"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Language:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Dad-O, why is &#8216;Leonard&#8217; part &#8216;nerd&#8217;?&#8221; asks Finn.&#8221;<br \/>Yeah,&#8221; adds Henry, &#8220;and is &#8216;Peter&#8217; made of poop? &#8216;Pee-turd!'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ah-froot-erzayn, Dad-O,&#8221; Henry tells me. &#8220;That&#8217;s how fruit says Auf Wiedersehen.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Finn: &#8220;What&#8217;s the English word for guacamole?&#8221;<br \/>Margot: &#8220;Guacamole.&#8221;<br \/>Finn: &#8220;What&#8217;s the Spanish word, then?&#8221;<br \/>Margot: &#8220;Guacamole.&#8221;<br \/>This is\u00a0<em>blowing his mind<\/em>. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Finn explained family slang to his teacher today: &#8220;My dad calls me &#8216;sucka,&#8217; and I enjoy it!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;Damn,'&#8221; says Henry, quoting his mom, then explains: &#8220;She&#8217;s talking about a little wall that holds back water.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Henry: &#8220;Dad-O, let&#8217;s give that road a hit!&#8221;<br \/>Me: &#8220;\u2026?&#8221;<br \/>Finn, translating: &#8220;He means &#8216;Let&#8217;s hit the road!'&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>The human bod:<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure the boys drew the right lessons from &#8220;The Little Engine That Could.&#8221; &#8220;Dad-O, we&#8217;ll grab those mean engines &amp; pee in their funnels!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Henry spies me from the bathroom, his eyes twinkling: &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna use my large intestine!&#8221; Thanks for sharing, buddy :-P!<\/li>\n<li>We got an eyeful of elephant anatomy at the Oakland Zoo. &#8220;That guy must have a *really* big large intestine!&#8221; observes Henry.<\/li>\n<li>Finn&#8217;s resisting independence: &#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna poop by myself at kindergarten, or in high school, or even in *college*!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty sure I popped out of Mom-O as a 3-year-old,&#8221; says Finn, &#8220;&#8217;cause I don&#8217;t remember being a 1- or 2-year-old.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language: &#8220;Dad-O, why is &#8216;Leonard&#8217; part &#8216;nerd&#8217;?&#8221; asks Finn.&#8221;Yeah,&#8221; adds Henry, &#8220;and is &#8216;Peter&#8217; made of poop? &#8216;Pee-turd!&#8217;&#8221; &#8220;Ah-froot-erzayn, Dad-O,&#8221; Henry tells me. &#8220;That&#8217;s how fruit says Auf Wiedersehen.&#8221; Finn: &#8220;What&#8217;s the English word for guacamole?&#8221;Margot: &#8220;Guacamole.&#8221;Finn: &#8220;What&#8217;s the Spanish word, then?&#8221;Margot: &#8220;Guacamole.&#8221;This is\u00a0blowing his mind. \ud83d\ude42 Finn explained family slang to his teacher today: [&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":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babyslang","category-transient-witticisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4386,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}