{"id":5280,"date":"2006-09-12T22:12:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T02:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2010-07-15T14:52:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:52:24","slug":"what-its-like-when-your-parents-read-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5280","title":{"rendered":"What it&#8217;s like when your parents read your blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t talked to my parents in 5 days.  I called them last night.<\/p>\n<p>My mother: &#8220;So you&#8217;ve been having a nice time with Michael, I see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(If I didn&#8217;t have a blog, and I hadn&#8217;t talked to my parents in 5 days, that would be a completely creepy comment &#8211; but since I have a blog, all is normal.)<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s been so great to see him.  Awesome time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then she said, &#8220;I loved your tribute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me:  &#8220;Oh, thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Big discussion about the 2,996 project.  It was great.  My mother is wonderful, wants to know everything.<\/p>\n<p>Then I hear my dad in the background, clamoring for the phone.<\/p>\n<p>My mother: &#8220;Hang on &#8211; Dad wants to say something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My father gets on the phone.  Launches right in.  &#8220;Who reads <i>Cymbeline<\/i> for fun???&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t talked to my parents in 5 days. I called them last night. My mother: &#8220;So you&#8217;ve been having a nice time with Michael, I see.&#8221; (If I didn&#8217;t have a blog, and I hadn&#8217;t talked to my parents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5280\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21174,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/21174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}