{"id":215,"date":"2008-07-11T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T10:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2010-05-08T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T21:17:08","slug":"sweet-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/sweet-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was tucking the blonde kid into bed last night he suddenly looked at me all serious then lay staring at the ceiling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>me: What&#8217;s up baby?<\/p>\n<p>tbk: Just thinking&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>me: Oh what about?<\/p>\n<p>tbk: I don&#8217;t know just lots of stuff<\/p>\n<p>me: Like&#8230;.?<\/p>\n<p>tbk: You know just lots of stuff like robot factories and unicorns.<\/p>\n<p>me: (dubiously) ok&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>tbk: &#8217;cause you know if I think lots of robots and unicorns then it goes around over and over in my head then I fall to sleep and dream about that stuff and then wake up early in time for school so I can go and learn stuff and it makes me clever.<\/p>\n<p>me: really?<\/p>\n<p>tbk: yeah because you have to dream to be clever!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2352\/2092057704_c2d9688d65.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"Scientist Jordan\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sweet dreams then kidda!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was tucking the blonde kid into bed last night he suddenly looked at me all serious then lay staring at the ceiling&#8230; me: What&#8217;s up baby? tbk: Just thinking&#8230;. me: Oh what about? tbk: I don&#8217;t know just lots of stuff me: Like&#8230;.? tbk: You know just lots of stuff like robot factories and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/sweet-dreams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweet Dreams<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[63,104,105,1],"tags":[60,66,59,61,67,58],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-parenting","category-the-blonde-kid","category-wbiagw","tag-conversation","tag-dreams","tag-kid","tag-kids","tag-sleep","tag-theblondekid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-3t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":195,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/well-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":215,"position":0},"title":"Well&#8230;.","date":"February 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night sitting in a Chinese restaurant celebrating the Chinese new year, I look up and smile at the blond kid who is just about to take a mouthful of cake: TheBlondeKid: What are you smiling at? 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