{"id":3419,"date":"2014-06-23T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T01:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2014-06-23T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T01:07:50","slug":"knighty-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=3419","title":{"rendered":"Knighty Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever been so stunningly wrong about something that it still occurs to you, years later, how you never, ever saw it comin’?!?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>No, me neither.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But I came close once.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several years ago, in the car, on the way to church, Sonny was asking about knights.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Do they exist?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Are there still knights around today?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>What about the swords?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Are knights still using swords??<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He was so enamored with the knight trappings that it seemed like\u00a0he was considering knighthood as a viable career option.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Well\u2026as long as there were still knights and swords and everything.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Thus all the questions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But nope.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>No knights.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>No swords.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>No more.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And except for a bizarre sidebar about Sir Elton John (which left Hubby shaking his head and me knowing it was confusing even before words like \u201chonorary\u201d and \u201cOrder of the British Empire\u201d started vomiting out of my mouth), my blanket statement was: Nope.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>No knights.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>No swords.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>No more.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So we get to church and go to the Cry Room*.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>This particular cry room was up on the second floor of the church and was fronted entirely by glass, so that you had an eagle\u2019s eye view of the proceedings down below.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m seated towards the back and am gazing out into empty space as Sonny approaches the window.<\/span>\u00a0 T<\/span>here he completely freezes.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Stands stock still and stares.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>He turns back to me and whispers furiously, \u201cWho are THOSE GUYS?!?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I approach the window and look down.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>And there \u2013 row upon row \u2013 as far as the eye can see, are men in big, plume-topped hats.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>They\u2019re parading in, wearing black capes with various jewel-toned linings.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>They have Miss America sashes of medals across their chests.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>And?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>THEY ALL HAVE SWORDS STRAPPED TO THEIR WAISTS!!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

WHO ARE THOSE GUYS?!??<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Er.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The Knights of Columbus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And for the record: NO!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>No there are NO MORE headhunters!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Anywhere.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Anymore.\u00a0 None.\u00a0 No. Headhunters.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re called Recruiters nowadays.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*For those who don\u2019t know, the Cry Room is a special, sound-proof room in the church that sports a huge glass window.\u00a0\u00a0People in the room cannot be heard, but they can see and hear what’s going on in the church.\u00a0 And this is the special room where\u00a0<\/span>kids who shout \u201cCHIPS!!!\u201d everytime the Holy Communion wafers are presented have to sit so <\/span>that everyone else can enjoy their chips in peace-and-quiet without being harassed about not sharing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever been so stunningly wrong about something that it still occurs to you, years later, how you never, ever saw it comin’?!? Yeah.\u00a0 No, me neither. But I came close once. Several years ago, in the car, on the way to church, Sonny was asking about knights.\u00a0 Do they exist?\u00a0 Are there still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[127,128,131,126,129,130],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}