{"id":70,"date":"2008-02-13T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=70"},"modified":"2008-02-13T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T11:00:08","slug":"dont-drop-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t drop me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night I was taking Bridget over to her friend&#8217;s house to play. It was date night, and we had a babysitting swap. En route my phone rang, and as I was talking I mentioned that I was on my way to <em>&#8220;drop Bridget off at her friends house.&#8221; <\/em>The conversation continued for a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget waited very patiently for me to finish, and when I hung up she very politely, and thoughtfully asked:<\/p>\n<p>B: Mommy?<br \/>\nT: Yea?<br \/>\nB: You gonna drop me off?<br \/>\nT: Yes I am<br \/>\nB: I don&#8217;t want you to drop me.<br \/>\nT: Oh, um, well. I won&#8217;t really drop you. I&#8217;ll just set you down softly. Is that okay?<br \/>\nB: Yea.<\/p>\n<p>It is an interesting thing to have a little person take everything you say so literally &#8212; kind of like when daddy got <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=53\">stuck in a meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She is a cute kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night I was taking Bridget over to her friend&#8217;s house to play. It was date night, and we had a babysitting swap. En route my phone rang, and as I was talking I mentioned that I was on my way to &#8220;drop Bridget off at her friends house.&#8221; The conversation continued for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}