{"id":450,"date":"2007-07-21T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/07\/small-object-of-desire\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T16:08:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T15:08:03","slug":"small-object-of-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/07\/21\/small-object-of-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Small object of desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I was pushing Bernard around the supermarket, as I do. We reached the last aisle, where I saw a display of cheap toy cars &#8211; 69p each, or 2 for \u00c2\u00a31. A huge &#8220;3+&#8221; emblem in the corner of the box made it clear that these were not going to be suitable for Bernard for nearly 2 more years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, baby, &#8221; I said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll buy a couple and then look after them for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now, I hold my red 1\/56 Honda S2000 and my yellow 1\/57 VW Golf ((yes, the different scales do mean that the Golf looks awkwardly small and the S2000 looks awkwardly large)) in my hands, and think &#8220;By golly, these feel good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toy cars. Where have I been all these years? I&#8217;ve been in a wilderness for the last decade or two, but I have returned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/cars.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Cars\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, do yourself a favour. This weekend, buy yourself a toy car. You&#8217;ll feel fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>*UPDATE: I&#8217;ve taught Bernard to push the cars around on the floor and make vrooming noises. Karen is most impressed. Truth be told, so am I. Vroooom!*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I was pushing Bernard around the supermarket, as I do. We reached the last aisle, where I saw a display of cheap toy cars &#8211; 69p each, or 2 for \u00c2\u00a31. A huge &#8220;3+&#8221; emblem in the corner of the box made it clear that these were not going to be suitable for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}