{"id":108,"date":"2009-02-25T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-05-02T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T15:04:12","slug":"not-from-around-here-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Not From Around Here, Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuffed animals are universal (more or less), right? But here is a classic example of Why We Aren&#8217;t Quite Average. Other people&#8217;s children carry around bears, mice, turtles, etc.<\/p>\n<p>My children carry around:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-107\" title=\"p-640-480-cf3664e6-1572-4ce0-84dc-18fa64142c6c.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/p-640-480-cf3664e6-1572-4ce0-84dc-18fa64142c6c-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"p-640-480-cf3664e6-1572-4ce0-84dc-18fa64142c6c.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A marsupial<br \/>\nand<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-106\" title=\"p-640-480-bfe16644-8146-4691-9abf-02317300a8f8.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/p-640-480-bfe16644-8146-4691-9abf-02317300a8f8-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"p-640-480-bfe16644-8146-4691-9abf-02317300a8f8.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\nA giant plush representation of a plague virus. And they <em>love<\/em> them.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading another homeschooler discussion the other day, where the mom was listing different kinds of homeschoolers:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>normal ones,<\/li>\n<li>mouth-breathing ones,<\/li>\n<li>gifted ones,<\/li>\n<li>and &#8220;the ones we all think are just plain crazy &#8211; come on, everybody knows at least ONE.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We fall firmly into categories 3 and 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuffed animals are universal (more or less), right? But here is a classic example of Why We Aren&#8217;t Quite Average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}