{"id":170,"date":"2008-11-14T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T17:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=170"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:21:29","slug":"theres-a-moral-in-this-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/theres-a-moral-in-this-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a moral in this somewhere&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tax Deduction #2:<\/strong>  Mama, after I eat my lunch, may I have candy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong>  Yes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>TD#2 eats lunch.  Carefully chooses a piece out of his bag of Halloween candy.  Oh, goodie.  Chewy Fireballs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong>  Are you sure about this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>TD#2:<\/strong>  Uh huh.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Chomp.  Big eyes.  Tears.  Wail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>TD#2:<\/strong> Mama, tongue!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong>  Yeah, it\u2019s hot, hunh?  That\u2019s cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TD#2:<\/strong>  Simmum for toas\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong>  For candy, too.  Want me to throw that away?<\/p>\n<p><strong>TD#2:<\/strong>  No.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Chomp.  Big eyes.  Tears.  Wail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>TD#2:<\/strong> Mama, hurts mouf!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong>  Yeah, I know.  Are you sure you don\u2019t want me to throw that away?  Mama doesn\u2019t like them, either.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TD#2:<\/strong>  No.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Chomp.  Big eyes.  Tears.  Wail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lather, rinse, repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax Deduction #2: Mama, after I eat my lunch, may I have candy? Me: Yes. TD#2 eats lunch. Carefully chooses a piece out of his bag of Halloween candy. Oh, goodie. Chewy Fireballs. Me: Are you sure about this? TD#2: Uh huh. Chomp. Big eyes. Tears. Wail. TD#2: Mama, tongue! Me: Yeah, it\u2019s hot, hunh? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17087,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/17087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}