{"id":299,"date":"2006-05-05T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/05\/05\/too-clever-by-half\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T14:08:37","slug":"too-clever-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Too Clever By Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eli&#8217;s crib is in one corner of his room, with the foot of the crib facing the corner. On the wall next to the foot of the crib is his bookcase; together the crib and bookcase form an L. This morning when I went in, he had one hand stuck through the crib slats grabbing a book from the shelf. Since the book wouldn&#8217;t fit through the slats, he passed the book to his other hand, which he&#8217;d draped over the side of the crib. He then lifted the book into his bed for reading, joining the ten or so books he&#8217;d worked through in the previous thirty minutes. &#8220;Hi, Daddy,&#8221; he said before going back to reading.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of problem-solving generally freaks me out. Eli&#8217;s gone from being a philosophy major, observing and commenting without actually <i>doing<\/i> anything, to being a physics major with two sub-critical pieces of uranium who wonders what happens if he smooshes them together.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certain I was <i>nothing<\/i> like this as a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli&#8217;s crib is in one corner of his room, with the foot of the crib facing the corner. On the wall next to the foot of the crib is his bookcase; together the crib and bookcase form an L. This morning when I went in, he had one hand stuck through the crib slats grabbing a book from the shelf. Since the book wouldn&#8217;t fit through the slats, he passed the book to his other hand, which he&#8217;d draped over the side of the crib. He then lifted the book into his bed for reading, joining the ten or so books he&#8217;d worked through in the previous thirty minutes. &#8220;Hi, Daddy,&#8221; he said before going back to reading&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}