{"id":1237,"date":"2013-03-05T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2013-03-05T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:28:42","slug":"grown-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Grown Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a045 min lifting at the &#8220;Y&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of us never grown up. \u00a0I am referring to myself. \u00a0I am a kid at heart and refuse to admit that I may be getting older.<\/p>\n<p>When my children were little, the Veggie Tales were just coming out. \u00a0Actually, they were a little young for my kids, be we enjoyed them just the same. \u00a0The kids also enjoyed listening to Patch the Pirate and the Donut Man on cassette tape. \u00a0We would drive along and sing our hearts out to those songs. \u00a0It was fun! \u00a0 One particular Patch the Pirate thing that my husband and I still say is, &#8220;That was, I say, that was the crack of dawn.&#8221; (long story: \u00a0Patch the Pirate Goes West)<\/p>\n<p>The Donut Man took Scripture verses and put them to music. \u00a0My children learned a great deal of Bible verses through listening to Donut Man tapes. \u00a0But the biggest, most influential teacher to my children was the Veggie Tales. \u00a0I think it was the animation. \u00a0That was excellent. \u00a0They took Bible stories and character lessons and put them into entertaining half hour video stories. \u00a0To this day, they will discuss Veggie Tale stories and songs~long after they have forgotten Patch the Pirate and the Donut Man.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I have had a Veggie Tales, Silly Songs with Larry song stuck in my head. \u00a0They only way I know how to fix that is to share the song with you (*evil grin). \u00a0Warning: \u00a0this is a very silly song!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_uv8Ej4CEoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a045 min lifting at the &#8220;Y&#8221; Some of us never grown up. \u00a0I am referring to myself. \u00a0I am a kid at heart and refuse to admit that I may be getting older. When my children were little, the Veggie Tales were just coming out. \u00a0Actually, they were a little young for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}