{"id":1238,"date":"2008-01-18T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2008\/01\/18\/my-son-the-future-writer\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T21:55:01","slug":"my-son-the-future-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"My Son the Future Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just now I asked Eli to tell me a story. <\/p>\n<p>It started out well enough with a mouse named Gerald. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gerald lived in a green house but oh, yeah, he was really a boy. <\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThis part seems good. Nice world building with the green house. It&#8217;s a fantasy story with a mouse-boy character. I&#8217;m starting to dig it. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>His dad was named Stephen and his mom was Misty and he almost forgot his sister named Liza. <\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nUh-oh the lines between fiction and fact are blurring a bit too much for my taste. If it&#8217;s fantasy wouldn&#8217;t he have other family members as other animals?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gerald, it turns out is also a robot. He can only jump from square to square and then only at certain times of the day. When sunlight hits him.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay, back to the fantasy story, now a sci-fi thriller with a jumping robot. The squares are the comforter pattern on my bed. The sunlight is streaming though the window. Nice mix of reality and made up story.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The end.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nWha? Where&#8217;s the rest of my story? Obviously we need to send him to a writer&#8217;s workshop or three to get his word count up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just now I asked Eli to tell me a story. It started out well enough with a mouse named Gerald. Gerald lived in a green house but oh, yeah, he was really a boy. This part seems good. Nice world building with the green house. It&#8217;s a fantasy story with a mouse-boy character. I&#8217;m starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Son the Future Writer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}