{"id":3835,"date":"2014-07-25T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2014-07-25T22:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T03:31:23","slug":"everybodys-a-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3835","title":{"rendered":"Everybody&#8217;s a critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there we were, at dinner, and to the surprise of no one at all, Number One Son says something that was, by any definition, highly inappropriate. \u00a0What it was, precisely, is not relevant to our story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOS:<\/strong> \u00a0[Highly inappropriate and disturbing remark]<br \/>\n<strong>BUMD:<\/strong> \u00a0&#8220;Son, that&#8217;s not appropriate. \u00a0You need to learn &#8230;.&#8221; \u00a0And here, I paused, trying to think of how to phrase this message. \u00a0After a pause of perhaps 20 seconds, I gave up. \u00a0It&#8217;s been a long week.<br \/>\n<strong>BUMD:<\/strong> \u00a0&#8220;Do you know what? \u00a0Never mind.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Reigning Queen of Pink:<\/strong> \u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">&#8220;Dad!!! \u00a0What the hell kind of pep talk was THAT? \u00a0You really suck at this!&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, kid.<\/p>\n<p>SOBUMD was howling with laughter.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t WAIT to be a grandfather. \u00a0My kids are going to be SO frightened to bring their kids to Grandma and Grandpa&#8217;s house&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t WAIT to be a grandfather.  My kids are going to be SO frightened to bring their kids to Grandma and Grandpa&#8217;s house&#8230;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,47,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}