{"id":2046,"date":"2025-02-19T07:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2025-02-19T07:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:41:42","slug":"hey-stop-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/hey-stop-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, stop it now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yoda-seagulls-stop-it-now.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2047\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yoda-seagulls-stop-it-now.png 814w, http:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yoda-seagulls-stop-it-now-300x213.png 300w, http:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yoda-seagulls-stop-it-now-768x546.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ulan asked me what picture I wanted her to draw, so I asked her to draw a picture of Yoda fleeing from seagulls. This is what she drew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now)&quot; -- A Bad Lip Reading of The Empire Strikes Back\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9t-slLl30E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One day I was walking and I found this big log. Then I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick. And I was like, &#8216;That log had a child!'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulan asked me what picture I wanted her to draw, so I asked her to draw a picture of Yoda fleeing from seagulls. This is what she drew. &#8220;One day I was walking and I found this big log. Then I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick. And I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/hey-stop-it-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey, stop it now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5,3],"tags":[253,106,102,252],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-life","category-science-fiction","tag-seagulls","tag-star-wars","tag-ulan","tag-yoda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1346,"url":"http:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/ulan-enjoyed-drawing-pictures\/","url_meta":{"origin":2046,"position":0},"title":"Ulan enjoyed drawing pictures","date":"2024-03-05","format":false,"excerpt":"I was recently asked to prepare an activity for junior high-level English classes to have students use gerund phrases as modifiers for verbs. 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