{"id":222,"date":"2006-04-11T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2006-04-11T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T14:41:15","slug":"go-go-gadget-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Go, go, Gadget Vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How great would it be to have a magic backpack like Dora, where anything you needed was already in there?  Your child poops his pants?  Well, in the backpack is a diaper, wipes, and clean clothes!  You get a spot on your clean blouse right before a date?  Well, in the backpack is another blouse (and pants to match.)  You get a flat tire?  Don&#8217;t worry&#8211;there&#8217;s one in the backpack.<\/p>\n<p>Diego has one, too, but it has cool &#8220;emergency&#8221; things like rafts and ziplines.  His would be useful to anyone on the Amazing race!  Although it wouldn&#8217;t have been too helpful with Lori trying to put together that greek statue, unless it told her, &#8220;by the way, those two are just extra pieces in thrown in to try to stump you, miss smartypants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or better yet, we could be like Inspector Gadget, and have all the necessary parts <em>built in<\/em>!  Go, go, gadget Vacuum!  Go, go, gadget dishwasher!  Go, go gadget laundry sorter! (I guess those would just be his hands, but they would go really fast!)  Go, go gadget can opener&#8230;.Microwave&#8230;.printer&#8230;.treadmill!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ve been watching too much tv with my kids.  Do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of watching tv, I watched the greatest show on PBS last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingsofjon.com\/\">The teachings of Jon<\/a>.  It&#8217;s about a severely retarded boy named Jon, and how he lives with his family.  He loves to fold paper, play with his  furbys, and swim.  He doesn&#8217;t talk, but communicates.  The theme of the show is, &#8220;Jon has an important purpose here, not necessarily to learn, but to teach.&#8221;  It was a wonderful and touching show about how he loves unconditionally, and therefore allows others to love more because they have known him.  Check it out.  I&#8217;m sure it will be broadcast again, sometime.  It made me so thankful for the people in my life, and reminded me that I need to be more accepting and loving to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How great would it be to have a magic backpack like Dora, where anything you needed was already in there? Your child poops his pants? Well, in the backpack is a diaper, wipes, and clean clothes! You get a spot on your clean blouse right before a date? Well, in the backpack is another blouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}