{"id":396,"date":"2008-09-26T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2008-09-26T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T23:00:29","slug":"break-it-to-me-gently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/break-it-to-me-gently\/","title":{"rendered":"Break it to me gently. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/twochairs-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-397 alignnone\" title=\"twochairs\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/twochairs-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Dad, I have good news, and I have bad news&#8221; the five year old boy told me as he sat down at the breakfast table this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first thoughts of &#8220;listen up, here comes the blog fodder for the day&#8221; were accurate of course.\u00a0 Just the humor in hearing my five year old attempt to prepare me for what came next was fun enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The good news is that you get to sit by me for breakfast this morning (short pause) and the bad news is that I don&#8217;t know where I can sit so that Mom can sit by me for dinner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I think I responded with something about focusing on the good news, but I can&#8217;t be too sure&#8230; it was early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dad, I have good news, and I have bad news&#8221; the five year old boy told me as he sat down at the breakfast table this morning. The first thoughts of &#8220;listen up, here comes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,7,8],"tags":[28,34,42,181,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}