{"id":8583,"date":"2011-05-13T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T23:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2011-05-13T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T23:43:15","slug":"eat-your-food-tina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=8583","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Eat your food, Tina&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner can be a frustrating time for me. The girls rarely want to eat the same thing and sometimes don&#8217;t want <em>anything<\/em> I offer them &#8211; and Avery occasionally prefers to play with her food rather than eat it. In an attempt to keep my sense of humor about it all, I turn to a line from the cult classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0374900\/\">Napoleon Dynamite<\/a>; &#8220;Eat your food, Tina!&#8221; I&#8217;ll say to the girls. (Tina, for those of you haven&#8217;t seen the film, is a llama.) After hearing this several nights in a row, an exasperated Zoe recently said to me, &#8220;I am NOT Tina. I do NOT like it when you call me that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Woops &#8211; I guess I&#8217;ll have to come up with another coping mechanism for dinnertime!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner can be a frustrating time for me. The girls rarely want to eat the same thing and sometimes don&#8217;t want anything I offer them &#8211; and Avery occasionally prefers to play with her food rather than eat it. In an attempt to keep my sense of humor about it all, I turn to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-58-two-kids-may-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583","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=8583"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}