{"id":323,"date":"2003-11-15T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-07-12T09:56:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T14:56:51","slug":"stupid-is-as-stupid-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Stupid is as stupid does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/photos\/2003\/20031115-gloomy_day.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/photos\/2003\/20031115-gloomy_day.html','popup','width=500,height=375,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20031115-gloomy_day_t.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/photos\/2003\/20031115-gloomy_day_t.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"  class=\"entry\"\/><\/a> As noted in the photo, which was taken with my Coolpix 2100, it&#8217;s a bit gloomy out today. Welcome to Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>We took the kids to see Brother Bear. The group of people next to us were ultra rude &#8211; talking loudly, making disgusting slurping noises, and whatnot. And no, it wasn&#8217;t just the children. The adults were just as bad &#8230; but it explains why their children are rude. Our kids were very well-behaved. They rarely spoke and when they did, they whispered. Neither one of them slurped and made loud noises either. So it can be done. But when you have rude role models, you grow up being a rude person yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point &#8211; we were at the library the other day and as I was browsing the new release section, I heard two boys talking quite loudly near the check-out desk. I was beginning to wonder why their parent wasn&#8217;t asking them to keep their voices down when their father started talking to them just as loudly. HELLO?! Ever hear of keeping your voice down in a library? Then the dad walked off and instead of following him, the one kid starts yelling at the top of his lungs &#8220;DAD! DAD! I HAVE TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!&#8221;. I shhh&#8217;d them as loudly as I could, but I was too far away for them to notice.<\/p>\n<p>So remember &#8211; if you want kids with good manners, exhibit some yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in the photo, which was taken with my Coolpix 2100, it&#8217;s a bit gloomy out today. Welcome to Chicago. We took the kids to see Brother Bear. The group of people next to us were ultra rude &#8211; talking loudly, making disgusting slurping noises, and whatnot. And no, it wasn&#8217;t just the children. The adults were just as bad &#8230; but it explains why their children are rude. Our kids were very well-behaved. They rarely spoke and when they did, they whispered. Neither one of them slurped and made loud noises either. So it can be done. But when you have rude role models, you grow up being a rude person yourself. Case in point &#8211; we were at the library the other day and as I was browsing the new release section, I heard two boys talking quite loudly near the check-out desk. I was beginning to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=323\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}