{"id":870,"date":"2007-06-17T22:47:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T03:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/17\/thoughts-on-fathers-day-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T22:47:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T03:47:32","slug":"thoughts-on-fathers-day-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Fathers Day 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, what was the name of that really fat President who they had to build an extra huge casket for?<\/p>\n<p>(She uses him like a weapon)<\/p>\n<p>I think it was Grover Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>(She can no longer hurt him herself but she has one last gun in her arsenal)<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, I wonder if he was named for the city he&#8217;s from or if the city was named for him.<\/p>\n<p>(She&#8217;s pointing it at both of us now)<\/p>\n<p>If he was named for the city, just call me Lainey Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>(Ten years into this and <em>now<\/em> we&#8217;re here?)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there was a tribe of Indians named Cleveland, like the Sioux or Cherokee.<\/p>\n<p>(This crossroad is killing him)<\/p>\n<p>Ha ha, the Cleveland Indians. Wasn&#8217;t that a baseball team?<\/p>\n<p>(I moved here for him and now what?)<\/p>\n<p>I know someone who would know, but I don&#8217;t like baseball.<\/p>\n<p>(How could someone use a child this way?)<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s Pasttime, my ass.<\/p>\n<p>(Doing nothing could mean losing him and doing something could break us)<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s Pasttime is now the PS3 or Nintendo Wii.<\/p>\n<p>(And what of Plan B?)<\/p>\n<p>I love the dogs. Maybe we should get a third.<\/p>\n<p>(I just don&#8217;t think it will happen and I am dying inside)<\/p>\n<p>Will three dogs make us the &#8220;Crazy Family With Three Dogs&#8221; on the block?<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;Two\u00a0adults and a REDACTED little REDACTEDhead&#8221;\u00a0is not a family)<\/p>\n<p>We barely have trick or treaters already<\/p>\n<p>(We were so fucking close).<\/p>\n<p>I suppose in a year, maybe two,<\/p>\n<p>(Maybe six)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll all sit and laugh about &#8220;The time Elaine thought she&#8217;d never have a child&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(What do I do?)<\/p>\n<p>(What do I do?)<\/p>\n<p>(What do I do?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, what was the name of that really fat President who they had to build an extra huge casket for? (She uses him like a weapon) I think it was Grover Cleveland. (She can no longer hurt him herself but she has one last gun in her arsenal) Hmm, I wonder if he was named&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-dreaming","category-life-in-cheesecake-city","category-the-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}