{"id":398,"date":"2009-06-10T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T13:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-06-10T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T13:42:58","slug":"un-necessary-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"un-necessary arguments&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we recently re-discovered &#8220;They Might Be Giants&#8221; album &#8220;No!&#8221; which is aimed at &#8220;all the family&#8221;. It&#8217;s been so successful, we all have favourite tunes. This morning I felt the need to introduce turn-taking in who gets to choose what&#8217;s on next. We were listening to my choice (where do they make balloons?)when this conversation occurred:<br \/>\nJoel: &#8220;I want Robot Parade next.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;No, sweetie, it&#8217;s Lily&#8217;s turn next, then yours.&#8221;<br \/>\nJoel: &#8220;But I want to choose Robot Parade!&#8221;<br \/>\nLily: &#8220;I choose Robot Parade.&#8221;<br \/>\nJoel (v angry) &#8220;NO! I WANT TO CHOOSE ROBOT PARADE!!&#8221;<br \/>\nConversation degenerates into shouting while mummy quietly bangs head against steering wheel.<br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s worth noting that this post has been written while waiting for BT.com to refresh to a login page so I can pay their bill. I think they may be trying to force me to pay by direct debit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we recently re-discovered &#8220;They Might Be Giants&#8221; album &#8220;No!&#8221; which is aimed at &#8220;all the family&#8221;. It&#8217;s been so successful, we all have favourite tunes. This morning I felt the need to introduce turn-taking in who gets to choose what&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}