{"id":680,"date":"2008-03-01T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2008\/03\/01\/the-perfect-gentleman\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T08:38:11","slug":"the-perfect-gentleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2008\/03\/01\/the-perfect-gentleman\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect gentleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tophat.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/tophat.jpg\" align = \"left\" hspace = 7 width=\"100\" height=\"106\" \/><br \/>\nAt an Italian restaurant last night, while I was picking at my spaghetti bolognese, a perfect little gentleman of around 2 or 3 years old came up to me and stared.<br \/>\nWhatever I did &#8212; peekabo, wiggly fingers, wiggly fingers on head, big smile, surprise face &#8212; it didn&#8217;t matter. He just stared. It was wonderful. And once again I found myself so grateful that I don&#8217;t live in Belgium or Austria or one of those other places (Portugal) where they take their children and send them into the forest and don&#8217;t let them come back until they&#8217;re 25.<br \/>\nYou can criticize Americans and say that we watch too much TV or that we put feathers in places we probably shouldn&#8217;t (egg dishes), but you have to admit: at least we don&#8217;t make our young people live in the forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an Italian restaurant last night, while I was picking at my spaghetti bolognese, a perfect little gentleman of around 2 or 3 years old came up to me and stared. Whatever I did &#8212; peekabo, wiggly fingers, wiggly fingers on head, big smile, surprise face &#8212; it didn&#8217;t matter. He just stared. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-also-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}