{"id":3212,"date":"2024-03-06T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:23:53","slug":"my-new-2-year-old-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/my-new-2-year-old-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"My New, 2-Year-Old Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I woke up to a message that made my day, my week, and really, my month! The fellow gave me permission to share it, so here goes:<\/p>\n

Hello Gray,<\/p>\n

I was flipping through a Star Wars book with my 2-year-old this morning (The Illustrated Star Wars Universe<\/em>, a collection of concept art for the original trilogy) and she was very interested in the tauntauns on Hoth.<\/p>\n

In the car on the way to daycare, she started crying and saying “Want tauntaun song please … want tauntaun song … tauntaun song please!” I tried explaining to her there is no tauntaun song. Then, I tried making up my own (it was … not good) and I think she actually stopped loving me for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

Finally, I went to Spotify (don’t worry, I was stopped in traffic) and found “Tauntauns to Glory.” We listened to it three times.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, thanks for writing a song about tauntauns!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How about that? I thought that was marvelous.<\/p>\n

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\n(Image: “Luuk (sic) on Tauntaun,” by Anton Van Dort, on Deviant Art under Creative Commons.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And if you don’t know what all that fuss was about, you can queue up “Tauntauns to Glory” on Spotify or listen free at this link<\/a>!<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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