{"id":6863,"date":"2013-05-10T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2013-05-10T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:33:07","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-51013-veins-mowers-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/retrobruxist-friday-51013-veins-mowers-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 5\/10\/13: Veins, Mowers, &#038; Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m genetically a whole lot like my mama. Growing up, everyone always said, &#8220;You look <em>just<\/em> like her!&#8221; (which was nice because she&#8217;s a good-lookin&#8217; lady). I&#8217;d pick up the phone, and they&#8217;d start asking about Lamaze classes or some Boone UU function, assuming they had my mother&#8217;s ear on the other end of the line. Or they&#8217;d hear my laugh from another room and come in looking for her. <strong>Three years<\/strong> ago, I realized the <em>one thing<\/em> I didn&#8217;t inherit from my mom was <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/fourth-percentile-for-capillary-circumference\/\">her fire hoses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(That&#8217;s not true. I got my <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/the-end-of-the-road\/\">sense of humor<\/a>\u00a0and ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/a-cotton-swab-parable\/\">generate ear wax<\/a> from my dad.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two years<\/strong> ago, I put on my big girl panties and bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/08\/more-power\/\">gas-powered mower<\/a>. I learned so many lessons that day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One year<\/strong> later and I&#8217;m still not <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/05\/in-feelings\/\">in feelings<\/a>. Pout. Stomp stomp stomp. Wah. Boo-hoo.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-110617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" alt=\"20130510-110617.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-110617.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh yeah. Thanks, post-it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Retrobruxist Friday, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m genetically a whole lot like my mama. Growing up, everyone always said, &#8220;You look just like her!&#8221; (which was nice because she&#8217;s a good-lookin&#8217; lady). I&#8217;d pick up the phone, and they&#8217;d start asking about Lamaze classes or some Boone UU function, assuming they had my mother&#8217;s ear on the other end of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/retrobruxist-friday-51013-veins-mowers-feelings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrobruxist Friday 5\/10\/13: Veins, Mowers, &#038; Feelings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dating","category-fambly","category-first-world-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6875,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions\/6875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}