{"id":9026,"date":"2005-05-31T14:47:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T11:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/31\/children-vs-adults\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T14:47:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T11:47:42","slug":"children-vs-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/31\/children-vs-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Children vs. adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how some adult things are more obvious to children than to some adults.  I witnessed this many times with different kids.  Today I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/monkeydisaster.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/brief-conversation-with-charlie-age-4_25.html\">yet another examle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/monkeydisaster.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/brief-conversation-with-charlie-age-4_25.html\"><p>\n<strong>A Brief Conversation with Charlie (age 4) About Politics and Conservation:<\/strong><br \/>\nHIM: Dad, are there bad guys?<br \/>\nME: Yeah, I suppose there are.<br \/>\nHIM: Do we know any bad guys?<br \/>\nME: No. No, I don&#8217;t think we do.<br \/>\nHIM: Is Bush a bad guy?<br \/>\nME: Bush?<br \/>\nHIM: The President. Bush. Is he a bad guy?<br \/>\nME: Well, I think he really believes that&#8230;uh&#8230;well, some people have different opinions than other people&#8230;uh&#8230;<br \/>\nHIM: But he wants to drill in the arctic! And that will hurt the animals! We have to stop him and make him go away! People need to stop building so many houses! We have to stop Bush! People shouldn&#8217;t drive their cars so much!<br \/>\nME: Hey, get your shoes on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how some adult things are more obvious to children than to some adults. I witnessed this many times with different kids. Today I came across yet another examle. A Brief Conversation with Charlie (age 4) About Politics and Conservation: HIM: Dad, are there bad guys? ME: Yeah, I suppose there are. HIM: Do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/31\/children-vs-adults\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Children vs. adults<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2418,2416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-humor","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7555,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/08\/bush-jokes\/","url_meta":{"origin":9026,"position":0},"title":"Bush jokes","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"There is plenty of anti-Bush humour around the web. 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