{"id":520,"date":"2006-10-04T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T14:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/10\/04\/wherein-eli-learns-one-of-the-most-satisfying-experiences-known-to-man\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T14:51:39","slug":"wherein-eli-learns-one-of-the-most-satisfying-experiences-known-to-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Eli Learns One of the Most Satisfying Experiences known to Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was a box on our front step. I brought it in and as soon as Eli saw it he said,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got a package!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As if this were the holy grail just shipped from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>When I opened it, hundreds of peanuts escaped and like a maniacal monkey Eli started scooping them up off the floor. He had not yet seen the true wonder of what else the box contained.<\/p>\n<p><em>Side note: Last Christmas we got a box just like this. It contained, what I thought was a gift for me and Stephen, a couple gift if you will, and a gift for Eli. The peanuts went straight to the garbage because there were many of them and I didn&#8217;t want to have to vacuum them up. A few days later we got a phone call from Sean in Arizona. He asked Stephen how he liked his new Playstation 2 game. Stephen&#8217;s reply, &#8220;What game?&#8221; Seems I had thrown the<\/em> Gran Turismo 3 <em>out with the bath water.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So this box, once opened and excavated, I left sitting in the floor of the office so Stephen could also paw through it and verify it contained no elusive Playstation loot. Fast forward to this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Eli comes in from his morning diaper summit with Stephen and spies the box. In the box was a piece of bubble rap. This was the first view I had of my child this morning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image518\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/img_7459.jpg\" alt=\"img_7459.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSee the look of intense concentration. Once Stephen had shown him how to pop the bubbles he knew <em>genetically<\/em> to systematically go down the rows of bubbles checking for unpopped ones. Now see the look of sheer joy at finishing the project.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image519\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/img_7465.jpg\" alt=\"img_7465.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nP.S. Kat and Sean, we loved our gifts. Thanks especially from Eli for the bubble rap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was a box on our front step. I brought it in and as soon as Eli saw it he said, &#8220;We got a package!&#8221; As if this were the holy grail just shipped from Amazon. When I opened it, hundreds of peanuts escaped and like a maniacal monkey Eli started scooping them up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wherein Eli Learns One of the Most Satisfying Experiences known to Man<\/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-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}