{"id":196358,"date":"2008-05-03T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/03\/well-now-i-know-why-my-family-is-insane\/"},"modified":"2008-05-03T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T00:46:00","slug":"well-now-i-know-why-my-family-is-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/03\/well-now-i-know-why-my-family-is-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Now I Know Why My Family is Insane&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Because <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&#8217;m completely nuts<\/span>, that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that my kids were overly rambunctious, and they decided that they must be some sort of evil robots, and started talking like the Daleks of Dr. Who fame.<\/p>\n<p>I was downstairs for this bit, but when I came upstairs, and my wife was speaking to the kids like a Dalek, saying, &#8220;Destroy, destroy, destroy!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I told her that it was completely wrong, that they didn&#8217;t say &#8220;Destroy&#8221;, they say &#8220;Exterminate,&#8221; and then I put my arm in front of my face to resemble the Dalek protrusion, and said:<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Exterminate!!<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Exterminate!!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Exterminate!!<\/span><\/span><br \/>&#8230;.<br \/>Oh damn!!!!  Stairs&#8230;.Must exterminate architectural barriers.<br \/>Contact Congress!!<br \/>Legislate!!<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Legislate!!<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Legislate!!<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess you had to be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m completely nuts, that&#8217;s why. It appears that my kids were overly rambunctious, and they decided that they must be some sort of evil robots, and started talking like the Daleks of Dr. Who fame. I was downstairs for this bit, but when I came upstairs, and my wife was speaking to the kids &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-mental-illness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}