{"id":4449,"date":"2013-02-20T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T19:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2013-02-20T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:01:01","slug":"girls-and-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2013\/02\/20\/girls-and-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls and Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2013\/02\/20\/girls-and-boys\/girl_and_boy_children_clipart\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Girl_And_Boy_Children_Clipart-247x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Girl_And_Boy_Children_Clipart\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Girl_And_Boy_Children_Clipart-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Girl_And_Boy_Children_Clipart.png 659w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, as I was getting ready to leave for work, the boys and I were chatting by the back door. A propos of nothing, Finny asked, &#8220;Mom-o, how do you tell girl and boy babies apart?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I knew he already knew the (anatomical) answer, so, Jeopardy-style, I phrased my answer in the form of a question: &#8220;Well, Finny, girls and boys look different, don&#8217;t they? How would you tell them apart?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>F: &#8220;Boys have hair like this (pointing to his hair), and girls have curly hair like you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>M: &#8220;Well, sometimes that&#8217;s true, but that&#8217;s not the only way to tell. What else is different?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>F: &#8220;Boys wear velcro shoes (pointing to his sneakers), and girls don&#8217;t (pointing to my flats).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>M: &#8220;True. What about their bodies? Do their bodies look different?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Henry: &#8220;Girls wear lipstick!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dad-o: {now chuckling audibly offstage, in the TV room}<\/p>\n<p>M: &#8220;Well&#8230;yes&#8230;but there&#8217;s one definite way to tell when you look at a naked girl baby or a naked boy baby, right? How do you go to the bathroom?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>F: &#8220;Oh! Yeah! Girls don&#8217;t have one of these! (pointing to his underpants&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>aaaaand, <em>SCENE.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as I was getting ready to leave for work, the boys and I were chatting by the back door. A propos of nothing, Finny asked, &#8220;Mom-o, how do you tell girl and boy babies apart?&#8221; I knew he already knew the (anatomical) answer, so, Jeopardy-style, I phrased my answer in the form of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4459,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions\/4459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}