{"id":252,"date":"2009-10-10T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/10\/can-you-hear-me-now\/"},"modified":"2009-10-10T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T23:44:00","slug":"can-you-hear-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/10\/can-you-hear-me-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Hear Me Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3516\/3997447306_0ccb124150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(128,0,0);\">My children love to talk on the phone.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>They also love to pretend that toys, pieces of wood and various other things are cell phones.&nbsp; It makes them feel sophisticated and important.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been told that all of their friends have cell phones.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been told that it would be so fantastic to have cell phones of their own.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve told them that they don&#8217;t really need them.&nbsp; They&#8217;re almost always with us!&nbsp; And when they&#8217;re not, they borrow mine.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, my Mother-in-law and I happened upon a garage sale in a ritzy part of her town.&nbsp; It was being run by two teenaged girls.<\/p>\n<p>They were selling 4 cell phones for .25 a piece.&nbsp;&nbsp;I bought all four.<\/p>\n<p>My kids are in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out the phones still work (though they don&#8217;t have service) and our battery charger works with them.&nbsp; They even take pictures and will calculate how much of a tip you should leave on a $20 tab split three ways.&nbsp; They let you choose ring tones and send pretend texts.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria told me yesterday what time it was in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>We disabled Alex&#8217;s, since we can&#8217;t trust him not to accidentally call 911.&nbsp; Knowing him, he&#8217;d figure out a way to call Rome.<\/p>\n<p>My kids have been playing with their new phones for two days straight.<\/p>\n<p>Best dollar spent ever.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My children love to talk on the phone.&nbsp; They also love to pretend that toys, pieces of wood and various other things are cell phones.&nbsp; It makes them feel sophisticated and important.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been told that all of their friends have cell phones.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been told that it would be so fantastic to have cell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}