{"id":4433,"date":"2004-02-10T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2016-02-12T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:01:07","slug":"a-principal-joker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4433","title":{"rendered":"A Principal Joker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on the website Continuum&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>My oldest daughter went to visit her younger sisters in the far off land of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the younger two were not feeling well and stayed home from school.<\/p>\n<p>I called this afternoon to see how things were.<\/p>\n<p>When my youngest daughter, M, almost 8, answered the phone, I said, &#8220;Hello, M.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;Hello, Daddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Being the joker I am, I said, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t your Daddy. This is the school principal. Why aren&#8217;t you in school young lady?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitation she replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m sick!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me speak to your babysitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you sound just like my Daddy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like your Daddy. He has a nice voice!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She handed the phone to her big sister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the principal. He wants to talk to you! But he sounds just like Daddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes&#8230; of course I talked to her again and told her it was really me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on the website Continuum&#8230;) My oldest daughter went to visit her younger sisters in the far off land of Georgia. Yesterday, the younger two were not feeling well and stayed home from school. I called this afternoon to see how things were. When my youngest daughter, M, almost 8, answered the phone, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Principal Joker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}