{"id":396,"date":"2003-08-06T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/08\/06\/"},"modified":"2003-08-06T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-06T01:01:00","slug":"396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/08\/06\/396\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Emily’s questions are getting harder all the time. One of her favorites right now is, “Daddy, I want to ask you sumpthing, OK? – is [this or that person or thing] really real, I mean really<\/i>?” Like the other day, I showed her an article about Steve Burns<\/a>, \"Get<\/a>who used to be the host of the kid’s show Blue’s Clues<\/a>, but left to record a rock album. So she says, “So he’s really real<\/i>, huh?” and I say, “Yeah, he’s a real guy,” and she asks, tentatively with big eyes, “does that mean Blue’s real too?” and I have to say, “No, honey, Steve and Joe are real, but Blue’s just a cartoon.”<\/p>\n

She’s very into a couple of Christmas books about the birth of the baby Jesus, and she asked me if Jesus was really a king when he grew up, and I said yes, but I think she’s going to be disappointed when she learns the ending to the story. Then there’s the whole Santa thing – hoo boy.<\/p>\n

At least we haven’t kept her in the dark about where meat comes from<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily’s questions are getting harder all the time. One of her favorites right now is, “Daddy, I want to ask you sumpthing, OK? – is [this or that person or thing] really real, I mean really?” Like the other day, I showed her an article about Steve Burns, who used to be the host of … <\/p>\n

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