{"id":4991,"date":"2010-07-19T22:47:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T03:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2010-07-19T22:47:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T03:47:54","slug":"arguing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/arguing\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4992\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/19\/arguing\/ohyeahright\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4992\" title=\"OhYeahRight\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/ohyeahright.jpg?w=435\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most days having two kids is a blessing, but let me tell you, when they argue it&#8217;s like poison.<\/strong> It&#8217;s that point of the summer where the day-to-day routine and close proximity is starting to wear on each of our boys&#8217; patience (and ours, for that matter). The one phrase that tends to get uttered more than any other lately has been just three words: &#8216;Oh. Yeah. Right!&#8217; The venomous nature of how it&#8217;s offered up is itself a verbal challenge posing as an answer to a rhetorical question. When the debate reaches this point you can almost start counting down to when the fists start flying. In less than two days they will get to spend a LOT of quality time together sitting just inches apart on our longest vacation road trip ever. I know it&#8217;s wishful thinking but I&#8217;m <em>positive<\/em> they won&#8217;t argue a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most days having two kids is a blessing, but let me tell you, when they argue it&#8217;s like poison. It&#8217;s that point of the summer where the day-to-day routine and close proximity is starting to wear on each of our boys&#8217; patience (and ours, for that matter). The one phrase that tends to get uttered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3XRuE-arguing","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}