{"id":469,"date":"2008-10-30T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2008-10-30T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T17:36:59","slug":"the-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/30\/the-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;A&#8221; word."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/awesome3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-470 aligncenter\" title=\"Some things just cannot be described with any other adjective.\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/awesome3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/awesome3-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/awesome3-1-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So yesterday whilst attending a fall &#8216;fling&#8217; at the boy&#8217;s school, I noticed one of his friends taunting him by saying &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m gonna tell on you&#8221;, to which he whined &#8216;No&#8230;. Don&#8217;t tell!!&#8221;\u00a0 The friend made a face and said &#8220;I&#8217;m just kidding&#8230;&#8221; Nevermind the fact that my son had no idea what the kid was going to tell on him for, much less the fact that he hadn&#8217;t done anything.<a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/awesomevocab-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-471\" title=\"Teach your children well...\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/awesomevocab-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/awesomevocab-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/awesomevocab-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So this morning I told him I was going to teach him a neat trick.\u00a0 &#8220;The next time someone tells you that they are going to tell on you, look at them and say.. &#8220;AWESOME!!!&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For some reason he and his sisters apparently loved the idea so much that they decided to assist him with some practice.\u00a0 By breakfast I think he had it down well enough to try it out, though I wonder how naturally it will flow the first few times he attempts it.\u00a0 Only time will tell.. but when it happens, it&#8217;s gonna be Awesome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logical_awesome-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-472 aligncenter\" title=\"There are just too many awesome images out there when searching for awesome...\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logical_awesome-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logical_awesome-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logical_awesome-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logical_awesome-1-700x560.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday whilst attending a fall &#8216;fling&#8217; at the boy&#8217;s school, I noticed one of his friends taunting him by saying &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m gonna tell on you&#8221;, to which he whined &#8216;No&#8230;. Don&#8217;t tell!!&#8221;\u00a0 The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,7,8],"tags":[20,64,65,78,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}