{"id":2447,"date":"2010-04-16T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2010-04-16T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T12:41:00","slug":"battle-on-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Battle on, Em."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/4525759824\/\" target=\"blank\" title=\"Em woodpile by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4026\/4525759824_c18ce2f16c_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Em woodpile\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Em has always been a bit boisterous, in spite of any other issues she may have.  It&#8217;s gotten a little more pronounced lately, which is good.  As a toddler, her &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Morning Out&#8221; program teachers called her &#8220;Miss Priss&#8221; because she hated to get her hands dirty.  (Thank you for making fun of my daughter&#8217;s sensory issues, by the way.)  She still doesn&#8217;t like it, but now she&#8217;s more willing to suffer it a bit in order to have some fun before going in to wash up.  Here, for example, she takes apart a woodpile as delicately as she can in order to see what kind of vermin are living among the rotting logs.  Those were all stacked up neatly when she started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Emily\/art\/2010art\/0410Emforcebook.jpg\" target=\"blank\" title=\"Force and Motion\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Emily\/art\/2010art\/0410Emforcebook-thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\"><\/a><br \/>\nShe also likes ridiculous, over the top physical humor.  Here, for example, is a project she&#8217;s working on for school.  The assignment is to explain force and motion as if you were writing a children&#8217;s book geared toward a 2nd grader.  As you can see, there&#8217;s definitely some force and motion going on in that picture.  And I only just noticed the lines around the eyes of the victim expressing just how astonished she is.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, through the magic of Netflix instant queue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/NRD\/Wii\" target=\"blank\">through the wii,<\/a> she caught part of the first episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xena,_Warrior_Princess\" target=\"blank\">Xena, Warrior Princess.<\/a>  She liked it and thought Xena was beautiful and cool.  It was a slapsticky battle scene that really pulled her in.  My girl&#8217;s first taste of geek pop culture.  I&#8217;m so proud.<\/p>\n<p>Based on all the facts, I see two new options for her future:  nerd or superhero.  Both work for me.  Either way, she&#8217;ll want to work on her war cry.  Battle on, Em.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<lj-embed id=\"60\"\/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Em has always been a bit boisterous, in spite of any other issues she may have. It&#8217;s gotten a little more pronounced lately, which is good. As a toddler, her &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Morning Out&#8221; program teachers called her &#8220;Miss Priss&#8221; because she hated to get her hands dirty. (Thank you for making fun of my daughter&#8217;s [&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":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447"}],"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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}