{"id":291,"date":"2005-02-26T11:33:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2005\/02\/26\/out_of_the_mouths_of_babes\/"},"modified":"2005-02-26T11:33:16","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T11:33:16","slug":"out_of_the_mouths_of_babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/02\/26\/out_of_the_mouths_of_babes\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the mouths of babes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My nephew Simon, who is three and whose sister, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/archives\/000478.html\">Elizabeth<\/a>, is pretty much brand new, asked his dad why Elizabeth has no penis. Zip told him that because Elizabeth is a girl, she has a vagina instead.<br \/>\nSimon, whose other auntie has just returned from the Far East, now thinks that if you&#8217;re a girl, you have a &#8220;China.&#8221;<br \/>\nAs is, the Great Wall of China.<br \/>\nCompany&#8217;s coming &#8211; get out the good china. It&#8217;s in the china cabinet.<br \/>\nThis china&#8217;s been in the family for generations &#8211; it used to be my grandmother&#8217;s china&#8230;<br \/>\nMade in China.<br \/>\nYou get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My nephew Simon, who is three and whose sister, Elizabeth, is pretty much brand new, asked his dad why Elizabeth has no penis. Zip told him that because Elizabeth is a girl, she has a vagina instead. Simon, whose other auntie has just returned from the Far East, now thinks that if you&#8217;re a girl, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/02\/26\/out_of_the_mouths_of_babes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Out of the mouths of babes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}