{"id":14386,"date":"2014-09-25T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=14386"},"modified":"2014-09-25T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T19:04:24","slug":"video-toddlers-debate-sprinkles-versus-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/world-weather\/video-toddlers-debate-sprinkles-versus-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Toddlers debate sprinkles versus rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-8zGoyDeB9y0\/VCRmwKhDP5I\/AAAAAAAADKE\/FzIRGqmrRAk\/s640\/2014-09-25_130150.jpg\" alt=\"Sprinkles vs rain: Toddlers debate the weighty issue. (YouTube \/ Tara Willmott)\" width=\"299\" height=\"187\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sprinkles vs rain: Toddlers debate the weighty issue. (YouTube \/ Tara Willmott)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Certainly politics, religion and even climate change are hotly debated topics but as a video shows, toddlers can get pretty fired up about whether it is sprinkling or raining.<\/p>\n<p>Posted to YouTube yesterday, the video portrays how quickly a discussion about the weather can get heated.<\/p>\n<p>A young boy insists it is just sprinkling \u2013 because his mom told him it was &#8211; while two twin girls demand it is raining.<\/p>\n<p>Strong words are exchanged and soon some poking ensues.\u00a0 The boy learns a harsh lesson about disagreeing with girls as one \u2018pokes his heart\u2019 and brings him to tears.<\/p>\n<p>Like many debates likely conducted by these toddlers\u2019 parents, in the end everyone insists they are right and no minds seem to be changed.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3sKdDyyanGk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly politics, religion and even climate change are hotly debated topics but as a video shows, toddlers can get pretty fired up about whether it is sprinkling or raining. Posted to YouTube yesterday, the video portrays how quickly a discussion about the weather can get heated. A young boy insists it is just sprinkling \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/world-weather\/video-toddlers-debate-sprinkles-versus-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Toddlers debate sprinkles versus rain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14387,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions\/14387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}