{"id":2819,"date":"2021-08-03T21:11:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T01:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2021-08-03T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T01:11:49","slug":"only-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"Only Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was an only child&#8230; but it took a lot of effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Alpha Child<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We had been riffing on the Steven Wright joke, &#8220;When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child&#8230; eventually.&#8221;\u00a0 Alpha&#8217;s ad-lib made the joke that much darker.\u00a0 I am quite proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was an only child&#8230; but it took a lot of effort. \u2014Alpha Child We had been riffing on the Steven Wright joke, &#8220;When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child&#8230; eventually.&#8221;\u00a0 Alpha&#8217;s ad-lib made the joke that much darker.\u00a0 I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2819\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only Child&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[24],"tags":[107,618,617],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-alpha","tag-dark-humor","tag-funnies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-Jt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}