{"id":454,"date":"2006-10-20T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T22:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2006-10-20T14:42:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T22:42:01","slug":"through-the-looking-glass-parents-and-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2006\/10\/20\/through-the-looking-glass-parents-and-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Looking Glass &#8212; Parents and Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Looking Glass today:  a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/quitting-soccer-thoughts-from-mom-and-dad\">nice post<\/a> by Michael Spencer and his wife, following on a post by his son Clay, about Clay&#8217;s decision to quit the high school soccer team.  Now, is there any way I can get my eight-year-old son to suck it up and get aggressive on the travel soccer team?  Or maybe do I need to suck it up a little and let him lollygag after the ball and learn his own lessons?  Dang, parenting is hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Looking Glass today: a nice post by Michael Spencer and his wife, following on a post by his son Clay, about Clay&#8217;s decision to quit the high school soccer team. Now, is there any way I can get my eight-year-old son to suck it up and get aggressive on the travel soccer team? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looking-glass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-7k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}