{"id":147,"date":"2013-11-17T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2013\/11\/a-true-gentleman.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:02:39","slug":"a-true-gentleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2013\/11\/a-true-gentleman.html","title":{"rendered":"A True Gentleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>My husband is out of town tonight for work. At bedtime, my four year old son dragged his pillow and blanket downstairs to my room and climbed up into my bed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sleeping with you so that you don\u2019t get lonely or scared,\u201d he told me matter-of-factly, and then busied himself with placing himself and his blankets just so.<\/p>\n<p>When he was settled, he said \u201cGood night, Mom, I love you\u2026.and just so you know, I brushed my teeth before I came down here because I didn\u2019t think you\u2019d want a guy with dragon breath in your bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And you know what? He\u2019s right. I really wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Good night my sweet boy. Thank you for keeping me safe and not scared, and for keeping the dragon breath out of my bed.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is out of town tonight for work. 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