{"id":3229,"date":"2010-12-03T01:39:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T01:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2010-12-07T02:09:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T02:09:23","slug":"letter-to-christian-at-2-12-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3229","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Christian at 2 1\/2 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_4662.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3246\" title=\"IMG_4662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_4662-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_4662-1024x574.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_4662-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Christian,<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve cast away aside your diggers and trucks for your brand-spanking freshly whittled bow drill fire kit, that your dad made for you tonight.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ObST_OwIsgk?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As you tell me in this video, you are &#8220;Evan&#8221; and you are teaching making fire.<\/p>\n<p>You are also obsessed with light sabers.<\/p>\n<p>and guns.<\/p>\n<p>and swords.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently anything can become a light saber, gun or sword. Got a wine cork or toilet paper roll? Then you&#8217;ve got a light saber. Got an L-shaped puzzle piece or rock? Then you&#8217;ve got a gun. Got a piece of bamboo driftwood? You&#8217;re good to go with your pirate sword.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re rolling with it, but making sure that you park your longer sticks out on the porch. And it&#8217;s important not to point guns at people but at targets and antique cans (as your dad&#8217;s taught you). And no JUMPING ON THE BED WITH SWORDS!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Mama<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_4765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Christian, You&#8217;ve cast away aside your diggers and trucks for your brand-spanking freshly whittled bow drill fire kit, that your dad made for you tonight. As you tell me in this video, you are &#8220;Evan&#8221; and you are teaching &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-holden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}