{"id":790,"date":"2019-09-17T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=790"},"modified":"2020-04-30T05:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T09:42:19","slug":"monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alcohol-beverage-celebration-cocktail-342971-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-791\" width=\"372\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alcohol-beverage-celebration-cocktail-342971-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alcohol-beverage-celebration-cocktail-342971-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alcohol-beverage-celebration-cocktail-342971-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alcohol-beverage-celebration-cocktail-342971-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alcohol-beverage-celebration-cocktail-342971.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@mariapop?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Maria Pop<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/alcohol-beverage-celebration-cocktail-342971\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday I had a couple of moles surgically removed from my back for examination. Nothing serious, I hope. Anyway, that\u2019s not the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story is that I now have two sets of stitches exposed on my back, and when I got home yesterday, I took this opportunity to toy with Rakan\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I told him that I had a fight with a monster earlier today and the monster dug its claws into my back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He saw the scars and stitches and seemed very proud of his dad. He asked me, \u201cDid it hurt?\u201d and I told him it hurt a lot, but I defeated the monster in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then I told him the truth because there are no monsters bla bla because I don\u2019t want him to be afraid of going to bed at night because if he sleeps late then I will have less time to be an alcoholic (which is the real monster I\u2019m trying to defeat here but I\u2019m losing every day).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The moral of the story is: Parenting is harder than getting stitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a couple of moles surgically removed from my back for examination. Nothing serious, I hope. Anyway, that\u2019s not the story. The story is that I now have two sets of stitches exposed on my back, and when I got home yesterday, I took this opportunity to toy with Rakan\u2019s imagination. I told &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/monsters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monsters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}