{"id":1953,"date":"2011-02-07T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:18:11","slug":"honesty-vs-stealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"Honesty vs Stealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>So it was bed time and my 9 year old scampers up the steps trying to be stealthy.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in the next room and my mother&#8217;s instinct says he&#8217;s been up to something.\u00a0 So I call out to him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>ME:<\/em><strong> What were you doing downstairs?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>CONOR:<\/em><strong> Nothing. \u00a0 Um. \u00a0 Taking a stroll.\u00a0 What!!!\u00a0\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t feel tired!&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>ME:<\/em><strong> Come over here.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>He walks to my bed and sits next to me.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>ME: <\/em><strong> Breathe on me<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>CONOR: <\/em><strong> [holds his breath for as long as he can but then giggles it out in a big guff]\u00a0\u00a0 What!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>ME:<\/em><strong> Just as I suspect, peanut butter.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve had a peanut butter granola bar haven&#8217;t you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>CONOR:<\/em><strong> What!\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have desert, ya know!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I sent him off the brush his teeth, again, and go to bed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Taking a stroll my ass!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it was bed time and my 9 year old scampers up the steps trying to be stealthy.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in the next room and my mother&#8217;s instinct says he&#8217;s been up to something.\u00a0 So I call out to him. ME: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1953\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-joy-of-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}