{"id":345,"date":"2018-09-06T06:18:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T06:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2018-09-06T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:29:10","slug":"oh-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/oh-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Mother!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve noticed a disturbing trend lately. I\u2019ve watched two high school romances in the last week (well, I\u2019ve had a lot of time on my hands), and in both of them the mothers die early on of some mysterious and lingering (although thankfully not disfiguring) illness. Am I hampering my daughters\u2019 emotional development by staying healthy? Maybe being left behind for six weeks while I head off to France for the second half of my sabbatical will be an adequate substitute? (Lucky I don\u2019t believe in foreshadowing, huh!)<\/p>\n<p>ps. Just watched Netflix\u2019s A Christmas Prince &#8211; same thing &#8211; mother offed before the movie even started. Spooky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve noticed a disturbing trend lately. I\u2019ve watched two high school romances in the last week (well, I\u2019ve had a lot of time on my hands), and in both of them the mothers die early on of some mysterious and lingering (although thankfully not disfiguring) illness. Am I hampering my daughters\u2019 emotional development by staying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/oh-mother\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh, Mother!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-5z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11554,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/whispering-and-tapping\/","url_meta":{"origin":345,"position":0},"title":"Whispering and tapping","author":"Interloper11","date":"March 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a trend on the internet these days for ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) content. 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