{"id":239,"date":"2009-05-30T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2009-05-30T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T02:04:00","slug":"its-good-to-have-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"It’s good to have goals…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s good to have goals, particularly if you’re a young, impressionable, gonzo 8-yr-old like Number One Son.  Coming up on the end of second grade, he’s declared his major – Pre Med.  He’s decided that he really wants to be a surgeon when he grows up.  (His idea of a good time is watching "Trauma: Life in the ER" and he can’t understand why none of us want to watch with him over dinner.)  Never missing a chance to reinforce a lesson, I told him that he is<\/strong> capable of becoming a surgeon if he wants to – all he has to do is study extra hard and get the best grades in all his math and science classes.  I agreed to buy his first set of scalpels if he gets into Med school.  <\/p>\n

It eventually occured to me to ask him why he wants to be a surgeon.  "Well," says my son the doctor, "I want to see graphic blood and gore.  Also, I want to give my sister [the Reigning Queen of Pink] a lobotomy so she won’t be so annoying."<\/p>\n

I suppose "at least he’s not just in it for the money" is sort<\/strong> of a consolation – sort of like a psychopath joining the army to be a sniper, do what you’re best at.  At least he’ll be able to take care of his parents in our old age, or at least get us prescription samples on the cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s good to have goals, particularly if you’re a young, impressionable, gonzo 8-yr-old like Number One Son.  Coming up on the end of second grade, he’s declared his major – Pre Med.  He’s decided that he really wants to be a surgeon when he grows up.  (His idea of a good time is watching "Trauma: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}