{"id":877,"date":"2008-11-14T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/11\/augustine-called-he-wants-his-pears-back.html"},"modified":"2008-11-14T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T15:21:43","slug":"augustine-called-he-wants-his-pears-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/11\/augustine-called-he-wants-his-pears-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Augustine called, he wants his pears back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scenes from the conscience of a 3-year old.<br \/>\n<em>Setting: <\/em>Regular readers of this now-lame blog recall that Michael the Little has been seized by the Muse and has gone through a stage of coloring the wall instead of napping.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve not yet bothered to clean off the artwork, but as far as I can tell, the Muse seems to have temporarily departed. Except for last night when she returned, moving him to draw on the arm of the couch, even as a piece of paper sat <em>right in front of him<\/em> on the end table.<br \/>\nAnyway, last weekend, we were discussing the nap in his future.<br \/>\n<strong>Me: <\/strong>If I read you a story and put you in bed, will you just draw on the wall again?<br \/>\n<em>Stares at us for literally 30 seconds. I&#8217;m not kidding. Finally.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Michael: <\/strong>If I did, I would say it was what I did before&#8230;<br \/>\nOr should I entitled this post&#8230;&#8221;St. Thomas,call your office. We need to look at that whole &#8220;Age of Reason&#8221; thing again.&#8221;<br \/>\nHmmm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenes from the conscience of a 3-year old. Setting: Regular readers of this now-lame blog recall that Michael the Little has been seized by the Muse and has gone through a stage of coloring the wall instead of napping. 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