{"id":8137,"date":"2016-11-03T09:59:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:59:45","slug":"we-would-like-to-propose-a-summit-in-re-nice-things-and-our-apparent-inability-as-a-family-to-have-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/11\/03\/we-would-like-to-propose-a-summit-in-re-nice-things-and-our-apparent-inability-as-a-family-to-have-them\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We would like to propose a summit in re: Nice Things and our apparent inability, as a family, to have them.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Williams, author of the brilliant <em><a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/10\/08\/okay-but-wait-here-is-some-new-information-i-need-it\/\">But I Want It<\/a><\/em> column in Slate in which a parent disputes with a child, strikes again with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/low_concept\/2016\/11\/why_your_kids_break_every_nice_thing_in_your_house_revealed.html\"><em>Nice Things and Why We Can&#8217;t Have Them. <\/em><\/a>In this column, the kids call their parents to an eminently reasonable discussion about the aforementioned topic, making such indisputable points as, &#8220;Then you said we could watch videos [on the computer] alone, but not while eating\u2014which, we\u2019d like to point out <em>again<\/em>, did not preclude drinking.&#8221; Genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Williams, author of the brilliant But I Want It column in Slate in which a parent disputes with a child, strikes again with Nice Things and Why We Can&#8217;t Have Them. In this column, the kids call their parents to an eminently reasonable discussion about the aforementioned topic, making such indisputable points as, &#8220;Then&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/11\/03\/we-would-like-to-propose-a-summit-in-re-nice-things-and-our-apparent-inability-as-a-family-to-have-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;We would like to propose a summit in re: Nice Things and our apparent inability, as a family, to have them.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[729],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}