{"id":4461,"date":"2008-03-22T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2008-03-22T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:07:49","slug":"playing-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/playing-with-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tru Fire\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/i8.photobucket.com\/albums\/a3\/juliemariesmith\/000_0072.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"200\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, we were eating breakfast and my three year old, staring out the kitchen window, said, &#8220;Look at all the police!&#8221;  They weren&#8217;t police; they were FBI agents.  Lots of them.  Arresting my neighbor.  Twenty feet away from my breakfast table.  For being part of a world-wide child pornography ring.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"S and N Fire\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/i8.photobucket.com\/albums\/a3\/juliemariesmith\/000_0073.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"200\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>This week, we were on our way to tae kwon do when a man decided to make a left hand turn without checking to see if anyone was in the passing lane that he would be crossing.  We were in the passing lane.  Our minivan was totalled; we&#8217;re all fine.  (But . . . but . . . I can&#8217;t tell you how many times my three-year-old has taken off his seat belt and I haven&#8217;t realized it until we got home.  If . . . )<\/p>\n<p>We criticize helicopter parents. But could I ever hover enough to protect my children?  <\/p>\n<p>They are 3, 6, and 9.  They have the attention span of gnats with ADHD, except when I bring out the matches, candles, toothpicks, and old chopsticks (my three-year-old calls them &#8220;porkchops&#8221;).  They&#8217;ll sit at the table for hours entranced by the flame, by the melting wax.  I let my children play with fire.  If only it were the most dangerous thing we did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}