{"id":6120,"date":"2009-06-15T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2012-09-28T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T23:58:04","slug":"in-which-h-o-p-corrects-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/6120\/in-which-h-o-p-corrects-me\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which H.o.p. Corrects Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;Oh, no, that&#8217;s real world violence. I don&#8217;t want to see any real world violence, it&#8217;s too scary,&#8221; says H.o.p., glimpsing a video of protests in Iran. So I explain to him what it&#8217;s about and that it doesn&#8217;t show anything extreme. I give some historical context but also accidentally misreferenced on a significant point.<\/p>\n<p>And H.o.p. corrected me.<\/p>\n<p>Not that it takes much wherewithal to be able to correct me on a point, but my eleven-year-old son correcting me when we&#8217;re talking about Iran? Yes! Good show! Thank you! Makes me proud. <\/p>\n<p>Grasping any and all opportunities when I can, we discussed news via social networking (Twitter\/Facebook\/Youtube etc.) and I pulled out our big world Morepolitical\/geographical map which is too big for us to tack up on a wall so I keep it in a corner next to my desk and unroll it and spread it out on the floor for discussions. <\/p>\n<p>Then when we&#8217;re done I give him a big hug because I&#8217;m still euphoric over his correcting me. <\/p>\n<p>And then he goes back to playing with his Sonic figures.<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * * * <\/p>\n<p>Following the situation in Iran on Twitter. Twitter recognizes the role it&#8217;s playing and has postponed scheduled maintenance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Oh, no, that&#8217;s real world violence. I don&#8217;t want to see any real world violence, it&#8217;s too scary,&#8221; says H.o.p., glimpsing a video of protests in Iran. So I explain to him what it&#8217;s about and that it doesn&#8217;t show anything extreme. I give some historical context but also accidentally misreferenced on a significant point. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[424,422],"class_list":["post-6120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-homeschool-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}