{"id":1414,"date":"2011-02-13T18:05:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T02:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2011-02-13T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T02:05:40","slug":"family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2011\/02\/13\/family\/","title":{"rendered":"family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my cousins came out as a lesbian recently. She has never been all that humble. Everyone is trying to figure out what that means for her children. I gave my aunt a little advice based on the trials of my childhood, but they were unique circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought about what my father must have been like when he was younger, happy and alive. Sort of like the father in field of dreams. Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about my mother and her sisters, and all they&#8217;ve been through. Life is so long. I talked to an old friend from middle school recently who has moved back home. She said being around the school has really reconnected her to those times.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been dirt biking this weekend. It&#8217;s been fun. If I wasn&#8217;t at my mom&#8217;s house right now posting from my phone I would say more.<\/p>\n<p>I took inventory of my dating history recently, recapping how each relation has changed me. I continue to think a lot about the perfect relationships where I just wasn&#8217;t happy and the failed ones where I was. I seems hopeless, but I don&#8217;t feel that way. I just go on living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my cousins came out as a lesbian recently. She has never been all that humble. Everyone is trying to figure out what that means for her children. I gave my aunt a little advice based on the trials of my childhood, but they were unique circumstances. I&#8217;ve always thought about what my father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}