{"id":2053,"date":"2007-12-03T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2007-12-03T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T14:39:32","slug":"the-dinosaur-story-you-know-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"The dinosaur story &#8211; you know it, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of things that make you go hmmm? I was wondering why out of the blue the same pair both wanted inroads into me. Must be the dinosaur story as a friend recounted to me &#8211; her therapist had two children, four and seven, and she would play dinosaur with them &#8211; come into the room and roar and roar like a big T Rex &#8211; the girls would scream and scream and then the youngest, the four year old, would say, &#8220;I want to be the baby dinosaur.&#8221;\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>Faced with a threatening presence, the youngest aligned herself with the threat.\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>So it&#8217;s up to me to stand up &#8211; to diffuse both attractions and make myself smaller in their eyes by getting further away. Like the Old 97s lyrics: &#8220;you&#8217;re getting smaller in my rearview mirror.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of things that make you go hmmm? I was wondering why out of the blue the same pair both wanted inroads into me. Must be the dinosaur story as a friend recounted to me &#8211; her therapist had two children, four and seven, and she would play dinosaur with them &#8211; come into the room and roar and roar like a big T Rex &#8211; the girls would scream and scream and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-x7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}