{"id":291,"date":"2008-09-04T08:55:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T14:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2008-09-04T08:55:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T14:55:49","slug":"are-you-kidding-me-the-tooth-fairy-chronicles-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/are-you-kidding-me-the-tooth-fairy-chronicles-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you kidding me? (The Tooth Fairy Chronicles &#8211; Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now playing a new game with our 8 year old &#8212; it&#8217;s called, &#8220;how many teeth can you lose and still eat real food?&#8221; She is the main player. I am a reluctant spectator. Tonight she felt compelled to alay my fears that she would be reduced to eating puree by counting her teeth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry mom, I still have . . . (long pause) 17 teeth!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WOW! Really? 17?! Well then, break out the steaks! Uh oh &#8212; nope, hold on &#8211; not just yet, because 2 hours later, she is down to 16.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>(Did I mention this is the 3rd tooth in\u00a05 days? This kid knows how to make up for lost time!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to wonder &#8212; would it be considered un-fairy-like for the tooth fairy to solicit donations?<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0should probably refer that question to our resident pixie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/toothfairy2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292 aligncenter\" title=\"It takes a village of tooth fairies in our situation\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/toothfairy2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/toothfairy2-1.jpg 378w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/toothfairy2-1-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now playing a new game with our 8 year old &#8212; it&#8217;s called, &#8220;how many teeth can you lose and still eat real food?&#8221; She is the main player. I am a reluctant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}