{"id":157,"date":"2004-01-29T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/01\/29\/the-joy-of-parenthood\/index.php"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"the-joy-of-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/01\/29\/the-joy-of-parenthood\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"the joy of parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i watched the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0328538\/\">Thirteen<\/a> tonight.  the movie was about a thirteen year old girl who really badly wants to fit in when she gets to junior high. to do that she befriends the most popular girl in school, and is soon drinking, taking drugs, getting piercings, blah,blah, etc.  her mother who loves her like crazy, is slowly being torn apart trying to deal w\/ her crazy daughter. <\/p>\n<p>while watching the movie, i totally couldnt help but think of all the shit that i pulled when i was young.  i started going to raves when i was 16 and of course did all the stuff that goes along with partying. of course i didnt think it was a big deal at that point, but looking back on it now, it would be impossible for me to say that i would think it was no big deal if i had a 16 year old child doing that kind of stuff.  and as time goes on, kids grow up faster and faster. they&#8217;ll be doing what i did when i was 16, when they are 13 or 12 or who knows!  the worries i have can only be about things that i know about, and things i did myself&#8230;. but that&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg.  who knows what kind of new insane fucked up shit there will be for kids to try when they are growing up years from now.  i&#8217;m sure the future will hold much more treacherous things than piercings and ecstasy.<\/p>\n<p>-v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i watched the movie Thirteen tonight. the movie was about a thirteen year old girl who really badly wants to fit in when she gets to junior high. to do that she befriends the most popular girl in school, and is soon drinking, taking drugs, getting piercings, blah,blah, etc. her mother who loves her like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/01\/29\/the-joy-of-parenthood\/index.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the joy of parenthood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}