{"id":719,"date":"2008-04-08T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/on-growing-up\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T01:32:46","slug":"on-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/on-growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"on growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lost my voice.  I had it when I went to bed last night.  Ask The Euro.  He was getting an earful of something &#8211; I can&#8217;t remember what. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s terrible.  Like one of those really bad dreams.  Where you want to scream, but can&#8217;t; and then decide well, just throw a jar of peanut butter at it. (My nightdemon is a critter of some marsupian variety with overlarge eyes and a pathological fear of Jif.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also terrible because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/11\/my-sister-is-jack-handy\/\"target=_blank>I can&#8217;t call my sister<\/a> &#8211; the only person who can make me laugh by poking fun at my childhood abandonment issues &#8211; and say <em>&#8216;I got that tax thing waaaaay wrong&#8217;, <\/em>and <em>&#8216;Time to channel Fey and Poehler and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/31\/on-the-phone-with-my-sister\/\"target=_blank>write that thing&#8217;<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The only question: Do we do it as a memoir or under guise of &#8216;this may or may not have happened&#8217;?<\/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;ve lost my voice. I had it when I went to bed last night. Ask The Euro. He was getting an earful of something &#8211; I can&#8217;t remember what. It&#8217;s terrible. Like one of those really bad dreams. Where you want to scream, but can&#8217;t; and then decide well, just throw a jar of peanut<!-- 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-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}