{"id":2353,"date":"2013-01-15T22:04:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T03:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2013-01-15T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T03:04:47","slug":"i-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"I &#8230;.Win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today:<\/p>\n<p>Me: Jenny, I need you to\u00a0eat more vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny: *blink blink* <em>Tsk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Me: Jennifer Autumn, are you listening?<\/p>\n<p>Jenny: Ye-es. Vegetables. Yes. YES! Gotta love the veg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;.and then&#8230;after supper&#8230;I find this&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?attachment_id=2354\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2354\" title=\"148944_10152399391275276_2114711037_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/148944_10152399391275276_2114711037_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/148944_10152399391275276_2114711037_n-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/148944_10152399391275276_2114711037_n-142x190.jpg 142w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/148944_10152399391275276_2114711037_n-60x80.jpg 60w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/148944_10152399391275276_2114711037_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, I&#8217;m not sure whether I should be glad she&#8217;s eating lots of carrots (a marked improvement), irritated by the twelve-year-old sass (OH, DEAR CROM, SO much sass), or worried that my tits are sometimes NOT calm, as the note clearly indicates that this may be the case. And what do my agitated motherly tits DO, exactly? Do they scold somehow without my knowing? Am I gesturing with them chidingly and no one has told me? Maybe I don&#8217;t want to know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Before I get angry letters about my parenting skills or lack thereof, yes she&#8217;s grounded.\u00a0But yes, I laughed. Hard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: #000000;\">Three hours later&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Me: *shaking my head in amazement, posting to FB* Calm my tits? Seriously, kid? Ba hahahaha&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/?attachment_id=2359\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2359\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2359\" title=\"thems-fightin-words\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/thems-fightin-words-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/thems-fightin-words-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/thems-fightin-words-190x142.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/thems-fightin-words-60x45.jpg 60w, http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/thems-fightin-words.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(<em>Editor&#8217;s note: AJ Aalto ate her veggies today&#8230;if by &#8220;veggies&#8221; you mean the tomato juice in my Bloody Mary&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today: Me: Jenny, I need you to\u00a0eat more vegetables. Jenny: *blink blink* Tsk. Me: Jennifer Autumn, are you listening? Jenny: Ye-es. Vegetables. Yes. YES! Gotta love the veg. &#8230;.and then&#8230;after supper&#8230;I find this&#8230;. Now, I&#8217;m not sure whether I should be glad she&#8217;s eating lots of carrots (a marked improvement), irritated by the twelve-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}