{"id":1105,"date":"2010-03-29T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:58:25","slug":"the-anti-exercise-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Exercise Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>So it was a typical weekend morning for my boys and we were all wrestling around in my king-sized bed. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>As usual the youngest got a little upset I was tickling him too much and joking around too much.\u00a0 Basically not <em>listening<\/em> to him as perfectly as he would like.\u00a0 So he stomps out of the room and goes into the other room where my middle son, Evan, was reading. And I hear this&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Evan:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Ow!\u00a0 You hit me!&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><em> Footsteps of Conor stomping out of the room.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Me (yelling into the hallway):\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Conor, don&#8217;t hit Evan&#8230;.. \u00a0<em> pause to let that sink in&#8230;.<\/em> Tickle him, he needs the exercise.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong> Footsteps of Conor walking BACK into the room.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Evan:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;No!\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Hit me!\u00a0 Hit me!&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Boy&#8217;s got his priorities.. he&#8217;d rather take the <em>punishment <\/em>than <em>TAKE<\/em> the punishment!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it was a typical weekend morning for my boys and we were all wrestling around in my king-sized bed. As usual the youngest got a little upset I was tickling him too much and joking around too much.\u00a0 Basically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1105\">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-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-joy-of-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}