{"id":55,"date":"2006-10-25T18:16:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=55"},"modified":"2007-04-28T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T10:44:20","slug":"a-question-of-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"A question of parenting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I a bad parent? Before you all rush at once, you gits, let me explain.<\/p>\n<p>Our Youngest Lad is rather fond of K9. He grins and pays attention when he spots the Tin Dog on screen (those who know the boy will know he couldn&#8217;t pay attention if his life depended on it and, being a teenager, grins are few and far between).<\/p>\n<p>Ambling through Woolies today The Folically Challenged One and I spotted a super duper remote control K9 and agreed it would be the perfect pressie for him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we&#8217;ve already bought his pressie &#8211; it&#8217;s one of those This Cost A Bit So It&#8217;s The Only One You&#8217;re Getting type of pressies so we agreed we shouldn&#8217;t buy the Tin Dog.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I&#8217;m wondering if I&#8217;m a bad parent is this &#8211; I&#8217;m going to ask my mum and dad to buy it for him for Christmas cos I really REALLY want to play with it!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I a bad parent? Before you all rush at once, you gits, let me explain. Our Youngest Lad is rather fond of K9. He grins and pays attention when he spots the Tin Dog on screen (those who know the boy will know he couldn&#8217;t pay attention if his life depended on it and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}