{"id":13362,"date":"2011-09-16T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T21:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=13362"},"modified":"2011-09-16T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T21:23:16","slug":"follow-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/16\/follow-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"follow-up…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago, I reported on the case of chicken little…<\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/u>, an eight year old girl whose fear that the "sky was falling" turned out to be related to her reaction to a close call tornado scare some five months earlier. I mentioned that I had gotten a note that she was much improved a week later. I thought I’d just give some follow-up since I saw her this last Tuesday. She came in smiling, and I said, "How are you doing with that tornado fear?"<\/p>\n

She, got a mildly serious look on her face and said, "I was doing great until one came down my street." Then she and her mother started laughing. Living here, I knew what they were talking about. We had another outbreak of tornados a week ago when Tropical Storm Lee made it up here from the Gulf. More scary television and power outages.  I asked where they lived. "Ball Ground," and they laughed even more. Ball Ground is a small town south of here [site of a Cherokee ball field in former times]. That’s where one of the tornados touched down. What they were laughing about was that they thought it was hilarious that she’d gotten over her irrational fear of tornados, and then a real one came to her street. They thought it was a fine joke on me. So did I.<\/p>\n

I told you, sometimes it’s just fun…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago, I reported on the case of chicken little…, an eight year old girl whose fear that the "sky was falling" turned out to be related to her reaction to a close call tornado scare some five months earlier. I mentioned that I had gotten a note that she was much improved a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13362"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13372,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362\/revisions\/13372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}