{"id":89,"date":"2010-02-21T20:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joeyhand.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2020-12-29T18:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T23:19:06","slug":"calming-down-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/calming-down-the-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Calming down the kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finally saw Avatar last night at the IMAX theater in Raleigh. With some hesitation about the PG-13 rating, we took both sub-13 kids, and we all enjoyed it. We also saw the 7pm showing, which meant it was nearly 10pm when we got out, raising the question, &#8220;How do we get the kids calmed down for bed by the time we get home?&#8221; It turned out to be a simple two-step process:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Stop by Krispy Kreme as the prelude to a sugar crash.<\/li>\n<li>On the way home, in response to a radio commercial, launch into a thorough explanation of credit cards, debit cards, and debt generally.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The kids should be asleep or feigning sleep well before you say &#8220;mortgage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally saw Avatar last night at the IMAX theater in Raleigh. With some hesitation about the PG-13 rating, we took both sub-13 kids, and we all enjoyed it. We also saw the 7pm showing, which meant it was nearly 10pm when we got out, raising the question, &#8220;How do we get the kids calmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}