{"id":2282,"date":"2011-09-23T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2011-09-23T07:45:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:45:49","slug":"your-processing-this-time-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"The way you make sense of your world &#8211; this time regarding &#8220;tornado&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what started you thinking about tornadoes last night, but as I was listing happy things to think about while you fall asleep, you kept interjecting these and related questions:<br \/>\n*  Mama, do we get tornadoes here?<br \/>\n*  Mama, do people die in tornadoes?<br \/>\n*  Mama, I think we are going to have a tornado tonight.<br \/>\n*  Mama, why do we go to the basement?<br \/>\n*  Mama, can you make a blanket without needle &#038; thread if we are in the basement during a tornado and don&#8217;t have one?<br \/>\n*  Mama, what will we eat?<br \/>\n*  Mama, do tornadoes ever stop?<br \/>\n*  Mama, I think we are going to have a tornado tonight.<br \/>\nA few minutes after reassuring you that meteorologists can predict with quite a bit of certainty when the conditions are right for a tornado, and they warn us when someone has seen one&#8230;<br \/>\n*  Mama, I think we should watch the news more.<br \/>\nlong pause<br \/>\n* So we can see if a tornado is coming.<\/p>\n<p>Whew &#8211; That is a LOT of processing about a certain idea that I cannot, for the life of me, connect to any of her personal experiences today (or recently).<\/p>\n<p>Your mind is quite amazing, Little Person!!<br \/>\nI love you<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tornadoWstars.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tornadoWstars.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tornadoWstars\" width=\"204\" height=\"228\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what started you thinking about tornadoes last night, but as I was listing happy things to think about while you fall asleep, you kept interjecting these and related questions: * Mama, do we get tornadoes here? * Mama, do people die in tornadoes? * Mama, I think we are going to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}