{"id":320,"date":"2010-11-19T14:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkofpark.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/19\/hungry-mouth\/"},"modified":"2010-11-19T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T21:30:47","slug":"hungry-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t there when it happened, but the story I heard is that the kids were riding in the car. The younger said \u201cBaby Hungry\u201d. The older looked at her mouth and scolded, \u201cyou\u2019re not hungry. I can tell by your mouth. If you were hungry your tongue would be more red!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mommy, naturally, thought this was weird. When she told me the story I explained how I had heard that Parent Birds know which chick to feed because the hungry ones have a redder mouth. I understand the blood flows to the digestive parts after they\u2019re fed, so the red-mouthed baby gets more food. The same rules must apply to Little Sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t there when it happened, but the story I heard is that the kids were riding in the car. The younger said \u201cBaby Hungry\u201d. The older looked at her mouth and scolded, \u201cyou\u2019re not hungry. I can tell by your mouth. If you were hungry your tongue would be more red!\u201d Mommy, naturally, thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}