{"id":207,"date":"2007-10-25T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=207"},"modified":"2007-10-25T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T23:13:00","slug":"hypothetical-advantages-grown-adult-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/hypothetical-advantages-grown-adult-has.html","title":{"rendered":"Hypothetical advantages a grown adult has over a 5 year old in a water fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, hypothetically speaking, let&#8217;s say a grown adult and a 5 (and a half!) year old boy got into a water fight.  Each are armed with a similar water pistol.  This treatise will attempt to outline the various advantages the adult would have in such a fight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Physical<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Faster acceleration and top speed.  This helps both in pursuit as well as retreat<\/li>\n<li>Quicker reaction times<\/li>\n<li>One negative would be that the adult&#8217;s larger body size could be a hindrance for hiding \/ ambushes as well as presenting a larger surface area for opposing water shots<\/li>\n<li>A surer aim<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Mentally<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>A stronger grasp on when to refuel.  You definitely don&#8217;t want to be shooting blanks when a raging opponent is bearing down on you firing hot lead err water err cold err more room temperature I guess.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Socially<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Whereas a 5 year old will get soundly rebuked for shooting a water pistol inside, a grown adult can more easily get away with it (while still getting yelled at, of course)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Tactically<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>The typical 5 year old does not have a solid grasp on certain key military tactics, such as:<\/li>\n<li>The art of ambush<\/li>\n<li>The importance of maintaining and securing the high ground (like say, a raised front porch)<\/li>\n<li>The art of taking cover behind various poles and objects (though he might hypothetically try to take cover behind his sister, as if that might stop <strike>me<\/strike> any hypothetical adult<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, I think that with said advantages, an adult would be able to escape a water fight with a 5 year old almost completely dry, while such a 5 year old would be soaking wet from head to toe.<\/p>\n<p>Did I miss any advantages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, hypothetically speaking, let&#8217;s say a grown adult and a 5 (and a half!) year old boy got into a water fight. Each are armed with a similar water pistol. This treatise will attempt to outline the various advantages the adult would have in such a fight. Physical Faster acceleration and top speed. This helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}