{"id":3822,"date":"2016-09-29T21:49:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2016-09-29T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:49:09","slug":"in-which-green-means-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2016\/09\/29\/in-which-green-means-go\/","title":{"rendered":"In which green means go"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s often been said that witnessing your child grow up is akin to scientific experiment – an intense longitudinal observational study with no control group.<\/p>\n

As a fan of language in all of its nuances, it’s been fascinating watching Joshua learn to talk. He just turned three last Friday, and he’s already a dab hand at rudimentary conversations (in which body parts, wheels and being “up and down” tend to feature prominently). <\/p>\n

He still hasn’t quite mastered all the colors, but red and green (“geen”) came first and remain his most reliable.<\/p>\n

\"Signs<\/a>

Signs of the season<\/p><\/div>\n

This evening on our walk home from nursery, we paused as usual to appreciate the temporary traffic lights propped up in the road to direct an alternating one-way flow of traffic around construction works. <\/p>\n

“Green means go,” he informed me as the lights changed and the queue of grumpy cars slowly trundled up the hill. <\/p>\n

Then Joshua picked up two fallen leaves and explained to me that they were lights, a red one and a green one. I tried to imagine the sheer number of neurons involved in recognizing and expressing such a complex metaphor, but ultimately failed.<\/p>\n

Like pretty much everything else involved in the existence of this little human, let’s just chalk it up to a miracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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