{"id":1844,"date":"2009-07-23T21:21:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T01:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2010-05-03T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T20:04:05","slug":"ready-for-the-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2009\/07\/ready-for-the-sat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for the SAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did about three double takes when, as we were getting into the car after gymnastics class this morning, Carrie complained about the heat.\u00a0 Not because it wasn&#8217;t hot, but because her exact words were, &#8220;Mommy!\u00a0 It&#8217;s <em>sweltering<\/em> out here!\u00a0 Turn on the air conditioner and roll down my window, please!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My four year old knows the word &#8220;sweltering&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even though it was a good bit humid, it was really only maybe 80?\u00a0 And not exactly sweltering.\u00a0 I&#8217;d reserve that word for Disney in July.\u00a0 (100 degrees and 100% humidity?\u00a0 Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> sweltering.)<\/p>\n<p>Denis says we should blame it on all the episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WordGirl\">Word Girl<\/a> Carrie has watched this summer.\u00a0 It does sound like a Word Girl word &#8211; where else would she have picked up such a word?\u00a0 It&#8217;s not exactly one that comes up in everyday conversation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did about three double takes when, as we were getting into the car after gymnastics class this morning, Carrie complained about the heat.\u00a0 Not because it wasn&#8217;t hot, but because her exact words were, &#8220;Mommy!\u00a0 It&#8217;s sweltering out here!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn","tag-carolyn-random-bits-of-cuteness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}