{"id":4216,"date":"2010-03-02T15:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2010-03-02T15:39:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:39:46","slug":"zoe-bedelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=4216","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Bedelia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was little I enjoyed the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amelia_Bedelia\">Amelia Bedelia<\/a> books, in which the main character always takes things literally. (In one book, for example, she&#8217;s told to &#8220;dress&#8221; the turkey for Thanksgiving, so she puts a little outfit on the bird.) Zoe reminded me of Amelia &#8211; and the fact that little kids often take things literally &#8211; twice this past week. &#8220;Let&#8217;s go around the room and say what the best part of our day was,&#8221; I suggested at dinner one night, only to have Zoe jump up and start walking around the table. I explained with a laugh that &#8220;going around the room&#8221; was just an expression &#8211; and what I meant was that the three of us should take turns talking &#8211; but it was lost on Zoe, who by then was having too much fun going in circles and talking about her day. And a few nights later, when I asked Zoe to &#8220;flip on&#8221; the light in her sister&#8217;s room, she looked at me like I was crazy. &#8220;I can&#8217;t flip the light!&#8221; she said with a laugh, likely thinking of the flips she does in gymnastics. It made a lot more sense to her once I asked her to <em>turn<\/em> on the light instead.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was little I enjoyed the Amelia Bedelia books, in which the main character always takes things literally. (In one book, for example, she&#8217;s told to &#8220;dress&#8221; the turkey for Thanksgiving, so she puts a little outfit on the bird.) Zoe reminded me of Amelia &#8211; and the fact that little kids often take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44-two-kids-march-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}