{"id":52,"date":"2020-03-29T05:14:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T05:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-03-29T05:14:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T05:14:51","slug":"saturday-march-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/2020\/03\/29\/saturday-march-28th\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, March 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two weeks into this blog and I find myself adopting the tone of those letters read in Civil War documentaries in a very flourishy British accent. My dearest friend, it rained hard today: a loathsome tempest that spattered against our windows and made us glad for the heat of the fire. Though we have recently fortified our provisions, we remain perilously low on a few much-needed supplies. Will I be forced to venture out into the streets where our common enemy lurks, where it is most perilous to practice effective distancing of the social variety? I pray thee keep well.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow. Today was also a day of phrases like “how did those crayons get zipped up into your pajamas?” and “Noodles don’t go in marker lids!” and “The cat doesn’t want to drink coffee.” We ended up staying indoors: colouring and bubble blowing and attempting to do toddler yoga, which was really me doing yoga; (I have very limited flexibility, so by “doing yoga” I mean “mostly standing in one place and very enthusiastically repeating the directions of the yoga instructor on the screen). My attempt to do ‘snake pose’ turned into me laying there while Dot decorated my back with stickers, patting my hair and assuring me “oh yeah, it’s cute.” Then I had a shower and the toddler covered my new shirt with stickers too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I am writing this, I’m realizing that the scritching noise I hear is not the rat\/squirrel\/whatever that’s in our walls, but several Toy Story (what else?) stickers that are still occupying my shoulder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I do deserve an A+ in pandemic parenting today. I filled up a cup with water and gave Dot a little paintbrush, and she spent an hour lovingly “painting” all of her stuffies. I was feeling very proud of myself. The joke’s on me, though, because when she woke up from her nap she didn’t understand why she could paint her stuffies but not draw on her stuffies, and also why not just draw on the wall? When her crayon was apprehended, she noted that Daniel Tiger paints a sun on the wall and she should be able to draw a sun like Daniel Tiger. She got me there. Daniel Tiger does paint a sun in the episode where he’s getting ready to be a big brother. Why do you have to do me like this, Daniel Tiger?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spot the Toy Story characters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pandemic fashion and art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks into this blog and I find myself adopting the tone of those letters read in Civil War documentaries in a very flourishy British accent. My dearest friend, it rained hard today: a loathsome tempest that spattered against our windows and made us glad for the heat of the fire. Though we have recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}