{"id":5467,"date":"2017-07-03T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2017-07-03T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:21:57","slug":"whats-the-deal-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/whats-the-deal-of\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the deal of?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Included in this post is an unscripted recording I made of my Granddaughters, Eden and Ariadne, when they were staying with us recently.\u00a0 The recording was caught with my phone, so please excuse the variable quality and the low volume.<\/p>\n<p>Very young children, Ariadne is three, have an amazing way of expressing themselves and learning language.\u00a0 For reasons known only to her, Ariadne decided that instead of asking &#8220;Why?&#8221;, she&#8217;d ask, &#8220;What&#8217;s the deal of?&#8221;\u00a0 When young children ask questions, I think it is our duty to answer them as comprehensively and truthfully as possible.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll also hear the voice of Eden and Ariadne&#8217;s Great Grandmother, who was also staying with us but has since returned to Africa &#8211; I miss you, Mom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The best thing about good answers<br \/>is how they lead to better questions.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/881591100145881089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>The best thing about good answers is how they lead to better questions.<\/h6>\n<p>I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I do.<\/p>\n\n<p>In case you&apos;re interested, the principle character in <a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/samples\/malmaxa\/beltamars-war\/\">Malmaxa<\/a> is a form of Eden drawn from the ether before she was born.\u00a0 In many ways the resemblance is uncanny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Included in this post is an unscripted recording I made of my Granddaughters, Eden and Ariadne, when they were staying with us recently.\u00a0 The recording was caught with my phone, so please excuse the variable quality and the low volume. Very young children, Ariadne is three, have an amazing way of expressing themselves and learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,132],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ariadne","tag-eden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}