{"id":847,"date":"2014-04-08T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/08\/groggy"},"modified":"2014-04-08T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:40:00","slug":"groggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Groggy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cDid she give you too much trouble?\u201d the elder woman asked the younger one as the latter handed the sleeping little girl to the former. <\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cNo trouble at all didi. She was a darling as usual\u2026\u201d the younger lady smiled. <\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know. Either she is all well behaved with you, or you are the one who is spoiling her\u2026\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cI pick the second option\u201d butted in the said child\u2019s father. <\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cIf her aunt doesn\u2019t spoil her, then who would?\u201d the younger lady stuck out her tongue at him. <\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cAlright, I got a call at 11. Will catch you tomorrow.\u201d she got up and walked to her apartment which was across the hallway. <\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cWhy is she in such a hurry? Its just 7 right?\u201d he asked as he carried the sleeping child to his room. <\/span><\/div>\n
As he gently laid down the child in deep slumber she uttered \u201cgoggy\u2026 goggy papa\u2026\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
Although anger filled in him, there was this happiness that rose in him shadowing the anger. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cAunty see\u2026\u201d the little girl pointed at her work of art on the wall. Her aunty smiled. She truly did love that child. <\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cCome here goo goo doll.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
As the tiny tot sat next to her she spoke again \u201cYou remember what to call your daddy?\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
She nodded vigorously. \u201cGoggy papa\u2026\u201d she giggled. <\/span><\/div>\n
Her aunty burst out laughing. She had always wanted to teach her the word groggy (her brother\u2019s famous nickname) and yet his daughter pronounces it in a different way making it a whole new nick name. <\/span><\/div>\n
She kissed the little girl\u2019s temple \u201cThat\u2019s my favorite goo goo doll!\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
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While a few of you might recognize who this story is based on, I would like to enlighten the ones who are wondering about this mysterious yet comical groggy. I met him last November and he was always this big brother I wanted to bicker with from the beginning. He helped me write my first novel and then he became my punching bag most of the times (we have never met each other though) We all called him grizzly (he looked like a grizzly bear) in the beginning. And when he did shave that beard, he was always sleeping or hungover and then we started calling him groggy which kind of stuck onto him for a while now. I would like to dedicate this particular story to him. *runs before groggy comes to catch me*<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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#### \u201cDid she give you too much trouble?\u201d the elder woman asked the younger one as the latter handed the sleeping little girl to the former. \u201cNo trouble at all didi. She was a darling as usual\u2026\u201d the younger lady smiled. \u201cI don\u2019t know. Either she is all well behaved with you, or you are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[72,76,135,221,391,392,443,575,727,779,882],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-corner","tag-atoz","tag-atozchallenge","tag-bonding","tag-connection","tag-friends","tag-friendship","tag-happiness","tag-love","tag-people","tag-relationship","tag-stories"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":15,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}