{"id":537,"date":"2009-06-03T13:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2009-06-03T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T23:02:44","slug":"elmo-and-the-hundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Elmo and the Hundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a Hundi? German for a little dog.  But  I better start at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Andy got me a Roomba for mother&#8217;s day. Used, from Craigslist, with a dead battery, wrapped in a brown paper bag and no card attached. See this short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eyduncFpzl4\">video<\/a>. (I then sent him to buy flowers but forgot to send Leilani along to help him pick out  the right ones :-) I don&#8217;t want to complain. I really like it, I always wanted one, and I am geeky enough that I am fascinated with it&#8217;s navigation algorithms.  And out house is a lot cleaner now. Anyway&#8230; Leilani was even more fascinated.  She loves the Roomba, and she named it &#8220;Hundi&#8221;. Daily she asks &#8220;Can we let the Hundi run around a little?&#8221; Took me a while, but I finally asked why she named it Hundi: &#8220;It runs around by itself and the cats are scared of him&#8221; (followed by an evil laugh) The cats are not really scared, but they prefer not to be in the same room and stay out of it&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p>And why Elmo? That&#8217;s unrelated, I am just too lazy to do 2 separate posts. I read her a story, and after this page<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/2\/talk-and-talk.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/2\/web\/talk-and-talk.JPG' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I said: &#8220;Boy, she sure talks a lot. Do you know anyone that talks that much?&#8221; Leilani thought for a moment and then her face brightened. She answered &#8220;Yes, Elmo!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a Hundi? German for a little dog. But I better start at the beginning. Andy got me a Roomba for mother&#8217;s day. Used, from Craigslist, with a dead battery, wrapped in a brown paper bag and no card attached&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}