{"id":5452,"date":"2014-04-12T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:23:44","slug":"on-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/on-parenting\/","title":{"rendered":"On parenting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16129\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140412_paradise.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover of PARADISE by Judith McNaught.\" width=\"175\" height=\"287\">Tess: \u201cYou know this makes us like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16006.Paradise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all the evil meddling parents in all those novels who pay off the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks, and then are responsible for the seething hatred between their daughter and her boyfriend until they meet up twenty years later and have angry sex<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9tienne: \u201cYou say that like it\u2019s a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tess: \u201cBut by that time, the boyfriend has used his seething hatred to make a billion dollars just to show her father up and comes back as a master of the universe to get his revenge on the parents and his girlfriend, even though she has never stopped loving him and was heartbroken that he never tried to contact her\u2014\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00c9tienne: \u201cThis is the part where the evil parents had never passed his letters along to the girlfriend, right? And hers got waylaid on the way to the post office? And then she finds out her parents threw money at him to get him to go away, and she turns on them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tess: \u201cRight. So it\u2019s all a giant drama, and the evil parents get their comeuppance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9tienne: \u201cI don\u2019t think we need to fear a raging billionaire coming after us in twenty years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tess: [sighs dreamily] \u201cI love those books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9tienne: \u201cYou know what I like about you, Tess?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tess: \u201cWhich thing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9tienne: \u201cYou\u2019re worse at being human than I am. You just have a better filter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tess: \u201cYou know this makes us like all the evil meddling parents in all those novels who pay off the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks, and then are responsible for the seething hatred between their daughter and her boyfriend until they meet up twenty years later and have angry sex.\u201d \u00c9tienne: \u201cYou [&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":[318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-of-dunham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452"}],"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=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18500,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/18500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}