{"id":5765,"date":"2010-04-01T17:29:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T00:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2010-04-01T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T00:29:48","slug":"overheard-childhood-conversations-take-a-thousand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/04\/01\/overheard-childhood-conversations-take-a-thousand\/","title":{"rendered":"overheard childhood conversations, take a thousand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little boy.\u00c2\u00a0 Context seems to suggest he was six years of age.\u00c2\u00a0 He is walking alongside his mother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What about an Age Power?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;d turn everyone into a six year old!&#8221;<br \/>\nAfter that sort of deliberate pause in order to think of best way to humor him, mom says &#8220;That would be interesting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My thought on that scenario would be that it would turn into a Dystopian Horror, which would have to be untangled with a certain percentage of the six year olds having to become &#8220;Wise Beyond Their Years&#8221; to take up in a real hurry to pick up Societal Leadership Roles &#8212; I suppose you can call this vaguely Randian fable.\u00c2\u00a0 There will likely be a somber feeling to this feat, a real sense of Innocence Loss.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that is where the six year old boy is going with his story, though.\u00c2\u00a0 At least, I hope not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little boy.\u00c2\u00a0 Context seems to suggest he was six years of age.\u00c2\u00a0 He is walking alongside his mother. &#8220;What about an Age Power?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;d turn everyone into a six year old!&#8221; After that sort of deliberate pause in order to think of best way to humor him, mom says &#8220;That would be interesting.&#8221; My thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5771,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/5771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}