{"id":853,"date":"2014-12-26T08:51:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T08:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/?p=853"},"modified":"2014-12-26T08:51:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T08:51:43","slug":"what-is-this-story-called-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2014\/12\/26\/what-is-this-story-called-again\/","title":{"rendered":"What is this story called again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The forgetful robot sat in the park burning a candle. He hoped that it would attract Santa&#8217;s attention. But he&#8217;d forgotten that day he had stuck his tongue out at Miss McGonagle. Seven times. That meant Santa would never see him again. He is off Santa&#8217;s list forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But maybe he&#8217;s still on Santa&#8217;s secret list.\u00a0The Shush-Don&#8217;t-Tell list for boys and girls who he can&#8217;t truly say are exactly good but, come on, it was one time. Okay, it was seven times.<\/p>\n<p>Sticking your tongue out at Miss McGonagle is very bad but Santa &#8211; shush! don&#8217;t tell! \u2013 likes sticking his tongue out too. Because he can. He&#8217;s so fast going around the world that he can do it without anyone noticing. It makes him giggle and laugh. \u00a0If you&#8217;ve ever heard Santa going ho ho ho, really he&#8217;s just stuck his tongue out at someone. <\/p>\n<p>The forgetful robot thought he heard laughing, but then he forgot. It&#8217;s more or less his job, really, forgetting things. If you want something forgotten, you hire a professional forgetterer. And there is no one more skilled at forgetting than Siduloiwciosulhifscys, though he calls himself Sid so that it&#8217;s easy for you, and so that he can remember all the way to the end of his name.<\/p>\n<p>What was here waiting for again?<\/p>\n<p>Right, yes, Santa. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What was he waiting for again?<\/p>\n<p>Right, yes, Santa.<\/p>\n<p>What was he waiting for again?<\/p>\n<p>Right, yes, Santa.<\/p>\n<p>The forgetful robot eventually had an idea and wrote down the word &#8216;Santa&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>What does this word &#8216;Santa&#8217; mean?<\/p>\n<p>What does this word &#8216;Santa&#8217; mean?<\/p>\n<p>The forgetful robot thought about it. He was quite clever, he was just forgetful. So after a bit, he worked it all out. &#8216;Santa&#8217; must be the title of this story. What was this story about again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forgetful robot sat in the park burning a candle. He hoped that it would attract Santa&#8217;s attention. But he&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2014\/12\/26\/what-is-this-story-called-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selfdistract","tag-forgetful-or-something"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4chyI-dL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}