{"id":3249,"date":"2010-04-13T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2010-04-13T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:46:21","slug":"to-the-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=3249","title":{"rendered":"To the monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Monster that lives in our house,<\/p>\n<p>Please stop eating the library books.  If you must eat books, there are plenty of books on the kids&#8217; bookshelves that they hardly ever look at.  Why don&#8217;t you try some of those out.  They aren&#8217;t as new and crunchy as the library books, but I&#8217;m sure if you eat enough of them you will be satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Ditto for the new socks.  If you could just eat the socks with holes in them, that would make my life a little bit better.  And there&#8217;s no shortage of those worn out socks, either.  Eat to your heart&#8217;s content!  You&#8217;ll find them on the floor in any one of the kids&#8217; rooms.  Really!  Help yourself!<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s stop taking the lids from the tupperware, shall we?  I mean, what use do you have for JUST a lid?  Use it as a Frisbee?  If you must take the lid, please take the container along with it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not asking for much. I&#8217;ll still let you stay here and live under the children&#8217;s beds.  You are free to eat the leftovers and watch tv after everyone else goes to sleep.  I&#8217;m only asking for a little consideration, here.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nPaige<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Monster that lives in our house, Please stop eating the library books. If you must eat books, there are plenty of books on the kids&#8217; bookshelves that they hardly ever look at. Why don&#8217;t you try some of those out. They aren&#8217;t as new and crunchy as the library books, but I&#8217;m sure if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}