{"id":517,"date":"2007-10-22T01:06:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T01:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/the-good-son\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T19:58:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:58:41","slug":"the-good-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/the-good-son\/","title":{"rendered":"the good son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mertsie-Beth looks after her husband&#8217;s invalid mother.  When she&#8217;s not working at the Med Supply or getting her hair done up like Jackie O or doing the hundred other things she thinks up to do to keep from tending to an octogenarian&#8217;s bed sores.  <\/p>\n<p>Eddie says she drugs the old lady with benadryl and pays a 12 year old neighbor 2 bucks an hour to sit by the bedside and watch soap operas and call her if she dies. He says Mertsie-Beth&#8217;s husband knows about it too, but he pretends like he doesn&#8217;t because he&#8217;s what they call <em>a good son<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Eddie sells hospital beds and hydraulic lifts two aisles over and thinks he&#8217;s Italian because his last name says he should be.  He says he likes me but I can&#8217;t bring myself to be moved by him.  His head is too big and he has no hair.  <\/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>Mertsie-Beth looks after her husband&#8217;s invalid mother. When she&#8217;s not working at the Med Supply or getting her hair done up like Jackie O or doing the hundred other things she thinks up to do to keep from tending to an octogenarian&#8217;s bed sores. Eddie says she drugs the old lady with benadryl and pays<!-- 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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}