{"id":27333,"date":"2007-04-06T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/04\/06\/when-very-young-children-try-too-hard-to-act-nonchalant\/"},"modified":"2007-04-06T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T10:00:01","slug":"when-very-young-children-try-too-hard-to-act-nonchalant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070406-01\/?p=27333\/","title":{"rendered":"When very young children try too hard to act nonchalant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of nothing (but perhaps filed as an addendum to the &#8220;stories from school&#8221; category), I was reminded of a story from the aftermath of the <a href=\"http:\/\/maximus.ce.washington.edu\/~nisqually\/\"> Nisqually Earthquake<\/a> that struck Seattle in 2001. Mind you, this story is fourth-hand by now, but it&#8217;s still cute.\n A young student, whom I will call &#8220;Billy&#8221;, returned from school the day of the earthquake (which struck in mid-morning).\n Billy: &#8220;Hi, Mom. I&#8217;m home.&#8221;\n Mom: &#8220;Hi, Billy. Anything interesting happen at school today?&#8221;\n Billy: (trying to sound nonchalant) &#8220;Nothing much.&#8221;\n Mom: &#8220;What about the earthquake?&#8221;\n Billy: (surprised) &#8220;Who told you about the earthquake?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Update: Corrected Mom&#8217;s question. And I deleted all the comments arguing about religion. If you want to debate child rearing, do it somewhere else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of nothing (but perhaps filed as an addendum to the &#8220;stories from school&#8221; category), I was reminded of a story from the aftermath of the Nisqually Earthquake that struck Seattle in 2001. Mind you, this story is fourth-hand by now, but it&#8217;s still cute. A young student, whom I will call &#8220;Billy&#8221;, returned from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-27333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Apropos of nothing (but perhaps filed as an addendum to the &#8220;stories from school&#8221; category), I was reminded of a story from the aftermath of the Nisqually Earthquake that struck Seattle in 2001. Mind you, this story is fourth-hand by now, but it&#8217;s still cute. A young student, whom I will call &#8220;Billy&#8221;, returned from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}