{"id":987,"date":"2009-02-09T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2009\/02\/09\/cannibalism-and-parenthood\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T09:54:00","slug":"cannibalism-and-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2009\/02\/09\/cannibalism-and-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannibalism and Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took my younger son (also known as &#8220;Spawn: the Sequel&#8221;) to his doctor for immunizations. The doctor reminded us of the usual things. Don&#8217;t shake him. Put him to sleep on his back. Car seat must face backwards. And so on.<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;It&#8217;s also great to read to him. At this point, he doesn&#8217;t care what you read, he just loves to hear your voice. You can read him any book, whatever you&#8217;re reading, such as&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here she leaned over to pick up the nonfiction book I had brought in with me. She read the title out loud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<i>Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America.<\/i>&#8221; Pause. Blink. Look of horror. &#8220;Um. Ok, maybe not <i>that<\/i> book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note to self: Do not bring research books for that chapter on human sacrifice into the pediatrician&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my younger son (also known as &#8220;Spawn: the Sequel&#8221;) to his doctor for immunizations. The doctor reminded us of the usual things. Don&#8217;t shake him. Put him to sleep on his back. Car seat must face backwards. And so on. She added, &#8220;It&#8217;s also great to read to him. At this point, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}