{"id":55,"date":"2012-01-13T17:38:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T17:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2015-04-23T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T20:14:57","slug":"laughter-vs-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"laughter vs. zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casey was playing his first varsity high school hockey game (as a freshman) at UNH&#8217;s Whittemore Center, so your Dad and I took you and Ainsley to watch.<\/p>\n<p>It was pretty late, and a school night&#8230; you and your sister were tired going into it. We had the place to ourselves&#8230; high school hockey games don&#8217;t draw a huge crowd. The first half was pretty boring&#8230; you were pokey and logey and laying around.<\/p>\n<p>At intermission, I brought you up for snacks.\u00a0 You wanted cotton candy and a drink. And popcorn.\u00a0 So did Ainsley.\u00a0 I bought one cotton candy for you to split.<\/p>\n<p>You quickly dove into the big portions.<\/p>\n<p>I kept telling you (so did your Dad) &#8220;If you&#8217;re full, stop eating.&#8221;\u00a0 but there was no stopping the ravenous machine.\u00a0 Soon Ainsley said, &#8220;I want my own cotton candy.&#8221;\u00a0 Being the Papa Bear that I am (it&#8217;s not easy saying no to you guys), I bought another.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes or so into the second half, the C&amp;A dynamic duo came back to life.<\/p>\n<p>ZIP! ENERGY! SPUNK! were now flowing <a href=\"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_7968.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-57\" title=\"IMG_7968\" src=\"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_7968-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_7968-300x242.jpg 300w, http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_7968-1024x827.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_7968-371x300.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>in your bloodstreams.\u00a0 Soon you were in the empty row behind us, running back and forth, carrying on, getting loud and being crazy.<\/p>\n<p>The snacks had revitalized, and you were having fun&#8230; w-i-d-e-awake.<\/p>\n<p>As the mayhem reached its zenith, it was time to go.\u00a0 It was nearly 8:30 pm (past your bedtime) and your Dad was taking you home.\u00a0 You were revved-up at a time when you should have been shifting into a lower gear.<\/p>\n<p>Blame it on the Papa Bear who brought you back to life and then got a kick out of watching you run around and having fun.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re only kids a VERY short while&#8230; cotton candy is magical on the tongue&#8230;. and laughter will always beat the crap out of zombie rest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey was playing his first varsity high school hockey game (as a freshman) at UNH&#8217;s Whittemore Center, so your Dad and I took you and Ainsley to watch. It was pretty late, and a school night&#8230; you and your sister &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/?p=55\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/camden.papabeaupreblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}