{"id":1064,"date":"2006-11-28T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2006-11-28T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T03:33:00","slug":"how-communication-gets-garbled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"How communication gets garbled."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was &#8220;curriculum night&#8221; at Emily&#8217;s school, so we went up there to cut stuff out and make a little spelling game, and generally socialize at the school.  While we were there, Emily&#8217;s teacher told me that Emily had made a picture in art that was so good she got to take it to show to the principal, so that if Emily told me she went to the principal&#8217;s office, I shouldn&#8217;t be concerned, since it was a positive thing.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we didn&#8217;t have any issues there, but when I asked Emily what she drew, she said she drew herself on the playground with her friends.  So I assumed that&#8217;s what she&#8217;d drawn in art.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.  She had played with sidewalk chalk during outdoor recess.  She actually drew herself <i>on the playground<\/i> with her friends.  Dangit, I was so close to interpreting it right!  Well, no harm done.  I still haven&#8217;t seen this beautiful picture, but I look forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was &#8220;curriculum night&#8221; at Emily&#8217;s school, so we went up there to cut stuff out and make a little spelling game, and generally socialize at the school. While we were there, Emily&#8217;s teacher told me that Emily had made a picture in art that was so good she got to take it to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}