{"id":215,"date":"2010-07-18T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2010-07-18T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T19:45:41","slug":"make-them-flatter-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Make them flatter please&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was serving pancakes to the kids a couple days ago&#8230;Tallie tries to be polite but asks,&#8221;next time could you please make the pancakes a little flatter?&#8221;<br \/>So what, is the surface too uneven for you&#8230;I mean how much flatter can you get than a pancake anyways? Later I realized she meant that they were a little too &#8220;thick&#8221; for her liking. The funny things kids say sure get your imagination tumbling, though, as you work your way toward understanding their intended meaning. I start thinking of the flattened squirrel road kill we had seen the day before when we were walking. Now that critter was seriously flat. Maybe that&#8217;s what you mean by flat? Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was serving pancakes to the kids a couple days ago&#8230;Tallie tries to be polite but asks,&#8221;next time could you please make the pancakes a little flatter?&#8221;So what, is the surface too uneven for you&#8230;I mean how much flatter can you get than a pancake anyways? Later I realized she meant that they were a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make them flatter please&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}