{"id":4354,"date":"2015-10-28T21:13:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2015-10-28T21:13:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:13:01","slug":"a-niece-a-barbie-and-a-jedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4354","title":{"rendered":"A Niece, a Barbie and a Jedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a personal happening I wanted to share.<\/p>\n<p>Today while visiting my 6 year old niece, I asked her what toy she wanted her Tio to bring her today &#8211; a Barbie or a lightsaber.<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitation, she said &#8220;Barbie!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitating myself, I pulled <em>both<\/em> out from my bag of goodies. A Halloween Barbie and a Star Wars SFX lightsaber.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s been a green blade swinging Jedi for hours. Excuse me. Let me add some completely unnecessary exaggeration for effect&#8230; <em>hoooourrrssss<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>She challenged her older brother to multiple lightsaber duels, expertly bounced a deadly purple balloon high through the air, explored pitch dark rooms by humming green light, and even managed a half cartwheel with the lightsaber in full twirl.<\/p>\n<p>Barbie who?<\/p>\n<p>Give the little baby girls in your life the best of both worlds, ya&#8217;ll. It&#8217;s absolutely glorious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a personal happening I wanted to share. Today while visiting my 6 year old niece, I asked her what toy she wanted her Tio to bring her today &#8211; a Barbie or a lightsaber. Without hesitation, she said &#8220;Barbie!&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4354\">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":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-18e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}