{"id":2900,"date":"2009-01-06T23:54:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T04:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2009-01-07T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T05:16:10","slug":"childhood-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"Childhood memories."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a very young child, I had the chickenpox. To keep me from scratching myself raw, my mother put a pair of my dad&#8217;s socks on my arms and sewed them together in back. I lay in my small bed completely unable to scratch myself, and had feverish dreams. <\/p>\n<p>I dreamed about a monster. He and his small round headed friends went from place to place, looking for kids with chickenpox who scratched themselves, and the little monster&#8217;s navel opened up into a gaping cavern which swallowed the chickenpox kid whole, while his tiny bird friend giggled in glee and his round headed friends sang stupid songs.  I called the monster &#8220;the belly button sucker upper&#8221;. I was terrified of him, and would wake squalling, mom never understanding what it was that I was afraid of. I had somehow superimposed my infantile fears on a snippet of a cartoon I had seen on a neighbor&#8217;s television, this being too early in my life for my parents to own a TV. <\/p>\n<p>This is how I grew up terrified of Snoopy and the peanuts characters. I have never before ever told this story to a single soul. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a very young child, I had the chickenpox. To keep me from scratching myself raw, my mother put a pair of my dad&#8217;s socks on my arms and sewed them together in back. I lay in my small bed completely unable to scratch myself, and had feverish dreams. I dreamed about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}