{"id":1024,"date":"2017-07-10T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T07:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2017-09-02T22:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T22:00:57","slug":"what-gets-passed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/what-gets-passed-down\/","title":{"rendered":"What gets passed down&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some questions and thoughts I&#8217;ll put down while they occur to me:<\/p>\n<p>What gets passed down?<\/p>\n<p>From father to son: is it that men don&#8217;t show weakness, or admit to making mistakes? Is it that boys don&#8217;t cry?<\/p>\n<p>From mother to daughter: it is that the mother&#8217;s relationship with her own father is the only father&#8211;daughter bond worth tending to?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From father to daughter: is it that the parent&#8217;s needs outweigh the child&#8217;s?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From mother to son: is it that no matter how much you search for me, you won&#8217;t find me. I was never there to be found.<\/p>\n<p>Souls chase each other, maybe endlessly, seeking answers to their private questions, demanding that their anguish be recognized by someone.<\/p>\n<p>Proxies may play the role at different stages.<\/p>\n<p>An old drama, never finished. Conversations seem to barely begin before the actor gets yanked from the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The Director has a sick sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>I really want my money back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some questions and thoughts I&#8217;ll put down while they occur to me: What gets passed down? From father to son: is it that men don&#8217;t show weakness, or admit to making mistakes? Is it that boys don&#8217;t cry? From mother to daughter: it is that the mother&#8217;s relationship with her own father is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/what-gets-passed-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What gets passed down&#8230;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoirs","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}