{"id":125,"date":"2006-05-01T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T15:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/grandmas-say-the-darndest-things\/"},"modified":"2006-05-01T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T17:01:00","slug":"grandmas-say-the-darndest-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/grandmas-say-the-darndest-things\/","title":{"rendered":"grandmas say the darndest things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on the phone with my grandmother.   She&#8217;s turning sixty-something this week and I called to tell her how young and fabulous she was.   <\/p>\n<p>But she knows this already.  <\/p>\n<p>Conversation then turns to food (because why wouldn&#8217;t it) and she starts in about breakfast and lunch and what she&#8217;s gonna have for dinner.  I tune out, like you do.  Start rearranging my wardrobe, thinking about self tanners and looking for last year&#8217;s pumps when I hear her say this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, I&#8217;m not trying to scare you, but it might be dangerous for you to have kids at your age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I lay down the shoes and reach for a bottle of red.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only 29.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on the phone with my grandmother. She&#8217;s turning sixty-something this week and I called to tell her how young and fabulous she was. But she knows this already. Conversation then turns to food (because why wouldn&#8217;t it) and she starts in about breakfast and lunch and what she&#8217;s gonna have for dinner. I tune<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}