{"id":2578,"date":"2011-07-20T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2011-07-20T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T01:45:09","slug":"pickled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/07\/20\/pickled\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/movies\/ghostbusters--slimer.jpg\" alt=\"What??!?\" class=alignright \/>Let me preface this by stating that I don&#8217;t know where any of this comes from&#8230; but it sure made for an entertaining evening.<\/p>\n<p>LITTLE E:  Dad, I need a pencil so I can draw a walking pickle with legs.<br \/>\nME:  This I gotta see.  Here you go.<\/p>\n<p>[a short while later]<\/p>\n<p>LITTLE E:  Dad, look!  A walking pickle with legs and eyes!<br \/>\nME:  Wow!  So it is. <!--more--><br \/>\nLITTLE E:  It has two legs!<\/p>\n<p>[thoughtful pause]<\/p>\n<p>LITTLE E:  It needs four legs.<\/p>\n<p>[a short while and several revisions later]<\/p>\n<p>LITTLE E:  It has millions of legs!<\/p>\n<p>[more like 15 or so, but I always lose count somewhere around there too]<\/p>\n<p>LITTLE E:  I&#8217;m going to erase its legs.<br \/>\nME:  Oh!  Don&#8217;t erase the pickle.<br \/>\nLITTLE E:  I&#8217;m not going to erase the pickle.  I&#8217;m just going to erase the legs.<br \/>\nME:  Does the walking pickle not need legs?<br \/>\nLITTLE E:  No.  <em>It&#8217;s going to be a pickle in the road.<\/em><br \/>\nME:  Why is it in the road?<br \/>\nLITTLE E:  It eats cars.<br \/>\nME:  The pickle eats cars?<br \/>\nLITTLE E:  <em>It&#8217;s a giant pickle that eats cars.<\/em><br \/>\nME:  Why does it eat cars?<br \/>\nLITTLE E:  <em>IT&#8217;S HUNGRY!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.<\/p>\n<p>And a silly pickle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me preface this by stating that I don&#8217;t know where any of this comes from&#8230; but it sure made for an entertaining evening. LITTLE E: Dad, I need a pencil so I can draw a walking pickle with legs. ME: This I gotta see. Here you go. [a short while later] LITTLE E: Dad, look! A walking pickle with legs and eyes! ME: Wow! So it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-baby-makes-three","category-funny-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}