{"id":12176,"date":"2026-03-21T12:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:59:32","slug":"my-son-told-his-teacher-we-were-watching-a-grown-up-movie-the-truth-was-priceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12176","title":{"rendered":"My Son Told His Teacher We Were Watching a \u2018Grown-Up Movie\u2019\u2026 The Truth Was Priceless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"40\" data-end=\"187\">For my wife\u2019s birthday, I bought her a special edition of <em data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"107\">Titanic<\/em>. Our 3-year-old saw it and asked to watch it. I said it was a \u201cgrown-up movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"361\">At nursery, he proudly told everyone, \u201cMommy and Daddy are watching a grown-up movie tonight!\u201d The teachers misunderstood and were trying not to laugh when I picked him up.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"448\">After I explained, everyone burst out laughing\u2014and I did too, embarrassed but amused.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"584\">That night, as we watched the movie, I realized how innocent and literal kids are. To him, it just meant something special for adults.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"586\" data-end=\"637\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Moments like these are unplanned\u2014but unforgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>For my wife\u2019s birthday, I bought her a special edition of Titanic. Our 3-year-old saw it and asked to watch it. I said it was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12176\" title=\"My Son Told His Teacher We Were Watching a \u2018Grown-Up Movie\u2019\u2026 The Truth Was Priceless\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12178,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176\/revisions\/12178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}