{"id":3544,"date":"2010-07-10T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T19:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2010-07-10T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T19:03:15","slug":"sometimes-only-mom-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, only Mom will do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John, barging through the bathroom door without bothering to knock, &#8220;Mom?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Hey, hey,&#8221; I said urgently, &#8220;I&#8217;m using the bathroom here.&#8221; As in, not just using the bathroom, but&#8211;you know&#8211;<em>using<\/em> the bathroom.<br \/>\n&#8220;But Mom?&#8221; he calls, thankfully from outside the door.<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes?  What do you need?&#8221; I asked.<br \/>\n&#8220;I need someone to tie my shoes,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Can you get someone else to help you tie your shoes?&#8221;  I asked.  The whole family is home, in various stages of getting ready for church, so surely there has to be someone who can help him, right?<br \/>\n&#8220;There isn&#8217;t anybody else,&#8221; he calls back through the door.<br \/>\n&#8220;What about Dad?&#8221; I said.<br \/>\nHe makes that exasperated sound that is part sigh, part &#8220;Whatever&#8221; noise, and walks off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, barging through the bathroom door without bothering to knock, &#8220;Mom?&#8221; &#8220;Hey, hey,&#8221; I said urgently, &#8220;I&#8217;m using the bathroom here.&#8221; As in, not just using the bathroom, but&#8211;you know&#8211;using the bathroom. &#8220;But Mom?&#8221; he calls, thankfully from outside the door. &#8220;Yes? What do you need?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;I need someone to tie my shoes,&#8221; [&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\/3544"}],"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=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}