{"id":225,"date":"2007-04-22T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T12:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/22\/SomethingIsBoundToRubOff.aspx"},"modified":"2007-04-22T12:47:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T12:47:18","slug":"something-is-bound-to-rub-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/22\/something-is-bound-to-rub-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Something is bound to rub off"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t know why I do it, but often when I hear a sound I feel compelled to mimic it.  More often than not I mimic it badly.  Perhaps if I did it well Paula would find it less annoying… but I don’t do it well.<\/p>\n

Here’s what life is usually like:<\/p>\n

Getting into an elevator:<\/p>\n

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Elevator: “Ding!”
Reeves: “Ding!”
Paula: “Stop it”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Paula walking around wearing flip-flops:<\/p>\n

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Flip-flops: “Snap, snap, snap..”
Reeves: “Snap, snap, snap..”
Paula: “Stop it”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When a bass-happy import car drives by:<\/p>\n

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Car: “Ooots, oots, oots…”
Reeves: “Ooots, oots, oots…”
Paula: “Stop it”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And just yesterday, pouring wine:<\/p>\n

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Wine bottle: “Glug, glug, glug…”
Paula: “Glug, glug, glug…”
Reeves: “That’s my job”
Paula: “It’s been thirteen years… something is bound to rub off”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m so proud of her.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know why I do it, but often when I hear a sound I feel compelled to mimic it.  More often than not I mimic it badly.  Perhaps if I did it well Paula would find it less annoying… but I don’t do it well. Here’s what life is usually like: Getting into an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlelife","tag-idlelife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}