{"id":29311,"date":"2020-08-31T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T05:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29311"},"modified":"2020-08-31T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T05:23:28","slug":"some-observations-on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29311","title":{"rendered":"Some Observations on Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. &#8211; Peter De Vries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A two-year-old is like having a blender, but you don\u2019t have a top to it. \u2013 Jerry Seinfeld<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanging out with my two-year-old is basically one big suicide watch. Their mission is to find one way after another of offing themselves \u2013 piss in an electric socket, lick a pit bull\u2019s nose\u2026and your job as a parent is to stop it before it happens. \u2013 Michael J. Fox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. &#8211; Peter De Vries A two-year-old is like having a blender, but you don\u2019t have a top to it. \u2013 Jerry Seinfeld Hanging out with my two-year-old &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Observations on Children&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29312,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29311\/revisions\/29312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}