{"id":2244,"date":"2017-06-12T21:31:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T02:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2017-06-12T21:31:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T02:31:26","slug":"succumb-to-your-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"succumb to your youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>lost in our mood<br \/>\nafraid to feel truth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I tumble gracelessly into the blanket of middle age, I&#8217;m beginning to be able to visualize more how my kids will manifest themselves as adults.  More than glorified parental appendages, they&#8217;ve both developed fully-formed personalities at this point, and are both a real delight to talk to and spend time around.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re back in NC for half a walk visiting D&#8217;s folks, and we made the required pilgrimage to Arigato for some Japanese food, and my overwhelming impression was just one of delight in my kids.  L was across the table in between two of his cousins, narrating the food preparation with a quasi-play-by-play, and P was cozied between D and myself, completely and utterly safe and content.  I think the latter feeling rubbed off a bit; it&#8217;s difficult to remember a time when that particular part of my mind was more at ease.  That isn&#8217;t to say all of me was; there was a large part that was still &#8220;on,&#8221; as it were, but a crucial little nugget was content.  For a spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lost in our mood afraid to feel truth As I tumble gracelessly into the blanket of middle age, I&#8217;m beginning to be able to visualize more how my kids will manifest themselves as adults. More than glorified parental appendages, they&#8217;ve both developed fully-formed personalities at this point, and are both a real delight to talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}