{"id":4824,"date":"2013-11-10T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2013-11-10T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T00:58:10","slug":"professor-maximus-and-his-ponies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/10\/professor-maximus-and-his-ponies\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Maximus And His Ponies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Director<\/a>

Director Maximus insisted on seeing the final cut twice before giving it his thumbs up.<\/p><\/div>\n

In recent weeks Max has really taken to roll playing as a teacher. If you watch him closely while he’s “teaching” you can really get a sense of what his day is probably like.<\/p>\n

While he normally tries to recruit is brother or sister to be his students (Sydney usually goes along with it, Andrew not so much), this time he found comfort in a small herd of tiny ponies.<\/p>\n

In case you’re wondering why he kind of looks like a pirate with a big patch on his eye, let me explain. We have to patch his left eye every day for at least 2 hours. We normally do this as soon as he gets up in the morning. So he has no eye injury, we are just trying to boost the vision of his right eye so that they’re closer to the same strength.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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