{"id":2313,"date":"2007-08-22T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2007-08-22T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T03:18:00","slug":"oh-yeah-sure-im-a-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/oh-yeah-sure-im-a-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, yeah.. sure&#8230; I&#8217;m a top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it was bound to come to this day. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/aiden_freeman.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">aiden_freeman<\/a> has decided that his favourite game is to go over to the shelf of board games and pull them down and take them apart.<\/p>\n<p>So today, I officially learned to invoke, &#8220;No.&#8221; And let me tell you.. I truly understand the phrase, &#8220;This is gonna hurt me more than it&#8217;s gonna hurt you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I pulled him away from the box he began to tear and reprimanded with a stern &#8220;No&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He plopped down and started to cry. Which in its own way is still wired into the failure-as-a-human circuit in my spine.<\/p>\n<p>Then he tried to get back into the games again. So, I picked him up and put him in the play pen. Which caused more crying. Which causes more angst internally.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah.. Dom, Top, blah, blah, blah&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like being bad cop to the boy.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, someday he&#8217;ll understand. Gah.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2313\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/oh-yeah-sure-im-a-top\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2313\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/oh-yeah-sure-im-a-top\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2313\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/oh-yeah-sure-im-a-top\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/oh-yeah-sure-im-a-top\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it was bound to come to this day. The aiden_freeman has decided that his favourite game is to go over to the shelf of board games and pull them down and take them apart. So today, I officially learned to invoke, &#8220;No.&#8221; And let me tell you.. 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