{"id":149,"date":"2006-09-30T20:23:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T01:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rreynoso.com\/blog\/archives\/149"},"modified":"2006-10-09T09:12:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T14:12:58","slug":"when-is-a-pikachu-not-a-pokemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/kids\/when-is-a-pikachu-not-a-pokemon\/","title":{"rendered":"When Is A Pikachu Not A Pok\u00e9mon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pokemon_2.jpg\" id=\"image148\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/pokemon_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">My son started speaking at one and in his Borg-like ability to acquire language skills I found myself constantly surprised by what words he knew. I was constantly on the defense, answering questions. But then the day that every father dreads dawned, when his very vocal boy looks up at him, points between his legs and asks \u201cwhat is this called?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When he asked that some four years ago my overactive imagination conjured various scenarios where a public pronouncement of private (ahem) information could prove socially disastrous. I didn\u2019t want to be one of those embarrassed parents burying my head in my napkin after my boy shouts that his \u201cPeePee needs to go WeeWee\u201d in a crowded restaurant. I also didn\u2019t want to be one of those parents apologizing to everyone when their kid scientifically explains how his Penis works (if you\u2019re one of those militant types, sorry, I just don\u2019t agree). Seeing the very real possibility I opted to label it something else\u2026something innocuous that has no chance of being socially damaging: Pikachu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pikachu.gif\" id=\"image146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/pikachu.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That\u2019s right; the unofficial mascot of the 2002 animated series <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pokemon.com\/flash.asp\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> became the name of my son\u2019s penis. There\u2019s no lost love here. He\u2019s been calling It a Pikachu ever since and our strategy has saved us from countless embarrassing moments but a year or two ago I realized the disaster of that label.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Although this name was not popularly used for such (cough) members this name belonged to a cultural icon. So when the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade was on TV and Al Roker announced their biggest float yet; \u201cthe great and majestic Pikachu!\u201d\u2014my  wife and I dove at the remote and shut off the TV while my son sat there puzzled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This bit of vocab-update is on my To-Do List for this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son started speaking at one and in his Borg-like ability to acquire language skills I found myself constantly surprised by what words he knew. I was constantly on the defense, answering questions. But then the day that every father dreads dawned, when his very vocal boy looks up at him, points between his legs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}