{"id":3227,"date":"2006-08-16T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2006-08-16T12:19:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T19:19:59","slug":"myth-buster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/16\/myth-buster\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth Buster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re trying to toilet train The Squirrelly, but it&#8217;s tough going.  He knows how to pee (does he ever) and he knows how to sit on the potty, but the idea of doing both simultaneously hasn&#8217;t quite clicked.  On the rare occasions that it happens accidentally we praise him to the heavens and generally act as though his pissing in a pot is as momentous as the fall of the Berlin Wall, but our positive reinforcements have yet to forge the link in his mind.  Usually he just sits on his little throne, happy as a unmicturating clam and blissfully unmoved by our exhortations.  &#8220;PEE! &#8221; we cry.  &#8220;VOID THAT BLADDER FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT&#8217;S HOLY!!&#8221;  Honestly, I think the phrase &#8220;getting urine from a toddler&#8221; ought to supercede &#8220;getting blood from a stone&#8221; as the clich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re trying to toilet train The Squirrelly, but it&#8217;s tough going. He knows how to pee (does he ever) and he knows how to sit on the potty, but the idea of doing both simultaneously hasn&#8217;t quite clicked. On the rare occasions that it happens accidentally we praise him to the heavens and generally act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-squirrelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}