{"id":626,"date":"2010-07-10T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T22:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2010-07-10T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T22:14:09","slug":"knock-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/knock-knock\/","title":{"rendered":"Knock, knock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So, while Alex says that he likes school, getting him to practice reading is like pulling teeth from the inflamed gums of a carnivorous mammal who once had an impacted tooth extracted with no meds when he thought he was going to get a sanguine treat.<\/p>\n

As fate would have it, he needs the practice.<\/p>\n

In addition to mild bribery, I have been looking for other incentives. I think I found one that works.<\/p>\n

The chalkboard wall. I wrote him a letter which he actually read with me without making faces, pouting or otherwise threatening a breakdown of some sort. Hmm.<\/p>\n

I have learned through this that Alex is rather discerning about his knock knock jokes.<\/p>\n

I will draw full-scale comics on his wall if that’s what it takes for him to break the reading code.<\/p>\n

A mama’s gotta do what a mama’s gotta do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, while Alex says that he likes school, getting him to practice reading is like pulling teeth from the inflamed gums of a carnivorous mammal who once had an impacted tooth extracted with no meds when he thought he was going to get a sanguine treat. As fate would have it, he needs the practice.… Continue reading Knock, knock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,95,751,755],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alex","tag-books","tag-chalkboard","tag-home","tag-reading","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/quiet\/","url_meta":{"origin":626,"position":0},"title":"Quiet","author":"admin","date":"November 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't believe that it is actually quiet right now. In fact, the clicking of my keyboard might be the noisiest activity right now. There isn't any TV on. The young one is playing with his some toys. I can't believe it. When quiet serendipitously happens, I feel like I\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/100_0588-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":344,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/behold-the-power-of-cheese\/","url_meta":{"origin":626,"position":1},"title":"Behold the power of cheese","author":"admin","date":"January 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"You gotta love those slogans. Actually, my favorite one is, \"Pork: the other white meat.\" Seriously? But that's neither \u00a0here nor there. Perhaps that slogan actually got into my brain somehow on a deeper level, the cheese one. Because today at Casa Turner|Augustine (Taugustine?), it was cheese day. So, we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "alex"","block_context":{"text":"alex","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/category\/family\/alex\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/dscn0340-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3552,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/last-day-of-camplunch-bags\/","url_meta":{"origin":626,"position":2},"title":"Last Day of Camp|Lunch Bags","author":"admin","date":"August 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is the last day of Alex's summer camp which he loves quite a bit. I love being able to drop him off somewhere for fun in the summer knowing that he enjoys the heck out of it. Throughout summer camp, there are a variety of field trips. The camp\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "alex"","block_context":{"text":"alex","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/category\/family\/alex\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9276.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3545,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/family-roadtrip-audiobooks\/","url_meta":{"origin":626,"position":3},"title":"Family Roadtrip: Audiobooks","author":"admin","date":"August 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Audiobooks have been a part of my life for many years now. I'm not one of those people who loved hearing teachers read from books in classrooms. That just wasn't my thing. In that context, my mind wandered and I would find myself doing things like picking at the carpet.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/inkheart-review.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5465,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/mamas-wild-wild-night-alone\/","url_meta":{"origin":626,"position":4},"title":"Mama’s Wild, Wild Night Alone","author":"sherlonya","date":"August 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Some people live alone.\u00a0 Other people don't.\u00a0 And for the first time since before Lincoln was born I spent a night alone in my house.\u00a0 First, I ate the fast food that I picked up because I didn't want to spend that precious personal time cooking. Then, I took a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "DIY"","block_context":{"text":"DIY","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/category\/diy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/allthebathbombs-e1628278304110.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":851,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/bon-appetit-strikes-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":626,"position":5},"title":"Bon Appetit Strikes Again","author":"admin","date":"July 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"As I close in on the end of the birthday goal period, I realized that I haven't been cooking nearly as much as I usually do should. \u00a0My jeans came back from the dryer with the same verdict. That combined with the fact that going into this weekend I was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "cooking"","block_context":{"text":"cooking","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/category\/cooking\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSCN1548-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}