{"id":4857,"date":"2011-10-25T06:08:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2011-10-25T06:08:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:08:31","slug":"keep-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4857","title":{"rendered":"Keep Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Marshall,<\/p>\n<p>Soon you&#8217;ll be speaking so well that there will be nothing left to say about your speech development, but that time is not yet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I made banana bread a couple of weeks ago. You called it &#8220;le na boodan.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Your favorite movie a few weeks ago was <em>The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water<\/em>. With the help of this movie, we taught you many new words, including &#8220;ocean,&#8221; &#8220;rainbow,&#8221; &#8220;disosor&#8221; (dinosaur), and &#8220;Erf&#8221; (Earth). And finally you stopped calling fish &#8220;crackers.&#8221; Now they are &#8220;biff.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Your current pronunciation of the word &#8220;frog&#8221; sounds almost like the F word, and your pronunciation of &#8220;basket&#8221; sounds almost like another rude word starting with F. It&#8217;s strange to hear your innocent little voice say such insulting words, but it&#8217;s also kind of funny.<\/li>\n<li>You call your daily vitamin a &#8220;bem.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>You have been using &#8220;dcuck-k-k&#8221; to mean &#8220;bird&#8221; for quite a while. But you said &#8220;bird&#8221; just the other day, so I know you know the word. For the time being, you seem to prefer that really hard-to-pronounce version of &#8220;duck,&#8221; and so that&#8217;s what you keep using.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve learned how to say commands like &#8220;Go away,&#8221; &#8220;Stand up,&#8221; and &#8220;Lie down,&#8221; and you&#8217;ve been ordering us all around! If your sister is nearby while you&#8217;re eating, you say, &#8220;Go &#8216;way, Nia!&#8221; over and over again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Mom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Marshall, Soon you&#8217;ll be speaking so well that there will be nothing left to say about your speech development, but that time is not yet. I made banana bread a couple of weeks ago. You called it &#8220;le na &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145,243],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5029,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}