{"id":2974,"date":"2005-07-05T07:28:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T12:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/07\/05\/parenting-basics\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T21:02:06","slug":"parenting-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/07\/05\/parenting-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TV ad now running for a local western wear store includes the following line:<\/p>\n<p><em>Never give your kid a name that&#8217;s too long to remember or too long to fit on the back of a hand-tooled leather belt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, while I readily acknowledge that the latter consideration is legitimate, I humbly submit that if remembering your child&#8217;s name, regardless of its length, is a problem for you, then you really should reassess your qualifications for being a parent and turn to something less challenging, like raising turtles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to remember your own child&#8217;s name is an essential parenting skill. Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5780,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}