{"id":445,"date":"2007-06-29T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/mummy-dearest\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T23:23:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T23:23:30","slug":"mummy-dearest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/mummy-dearest\/","title":{"rendered":"mummy dearest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Haymarket incident this morning I thought I&#8217;d give her a few hours &#8211; eastern standard time &#8211; to calm down.   Phone her at the evening and ease her &#8220;<em>the terrorists are coming and you&#8217;re right in their way<\/em>&#8221; mentality.  Then the whole Park Lane thing popped up and I rather thought better of it. <\/p>\n<p>At her best my mother lives in a mild state of panic.  At her worst or, say, when her first born is within a hundred miles of something like this, she pretty much turns into a contagious kind of crazy.  Calm.  But crazy.  She always says I&#8217;ll understand when I have children and I always make a mental note to ask my sister if she&#8217;s right.  <\/p>\n<p>For now I think I&#8217;ll just lay off the phone for a few days lest mummy dearest hyperventilate and drag me along with her. <\/p>\n<p>Because, you know, from what I can tell I&#8217;m pretty much genetically disposed to that sort of thing. <\/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>After the Haymarket incident this morning I thought I&#8217;d give her a few hours &#8211; eastern standard time &#8211; to calm down. Phone her at the evening and ease her &#8220;the terrorists are coming and you&#8217;re right in their way&#8221; mentality. Then the whole Park Lane thing popped up and I rather thought better of<!-- 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-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}