{"id":1877,"date":"2017-06-28T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T23:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2017-06-28T16:19:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T23:19:50","slug":"my-secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1877","title":{"rendered":"My Secret Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/books1-e1498691470431.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/books1-e1498691470431-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/books1-e1498691470431-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/books1-e1498691470431-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/books1-e1498691470431-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>Argument: \u00a0There is nothing to do. \u00a0I&#8217;m bored.<\/p>\n<p>Rebuttal: Read a book.<\/p>\n<p>Negative Rebuttal: \u00a0I don&#8217;t have any books. \u00a0I&#8217;ve read them all. \u00a0I&#8217;m so bored I&#8217;m going to die.<\/p>\n<p>Winning Response: \u00a0Get in the car. \u00a0We are going to the library.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, every mother&#8217;s secret weapon. \u00a0The scourge of bored children everywhere. \u00a0The Library.<\/p>\n<p>Lined with beautiful books that you can grab and go. \u00a0Looks interesting? \u00a0Grab it. \u00a0Back blurb got you curious? Add it. \u00a0Author you like? Stack it.<\/p>\n<p>And the beauty of it all, you get to walk out with them for nothing. \u00a0So if it is a dud, no worries. \u00a0You can return it no questions asked. \u00a0But if you love it, if it opens new worlds for you, you can go back for more. \u00a0And more. \u00a0And more! \u00a0Is there anything better than a summer spent reading library books? \u00a0Debatable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argument: \u00a0There is nothing to do. \u00a0I&#8217;m bored. Rebuttal: Read a book. Negative Rebuttal: \u00a0I don&#8217;t have any books. \u00a0I&#8217;ve read them all. \u00a0I&#8217;m so bored I&#8217;m going to die. Winning Response: \u00a0Get in the car. \u00a0We are going to the library. Yes, every mother&#8217;s secret weapon. \u00a0The scourge of bored children everywhere. \u00a0The Library. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":""},"categories":[22,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-uh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}