{"id":2049,"date":"2010-08-26T21:28:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T04:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2010-08-26T21:45:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T04:45:20","slug":"2049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"My role as Kara&#8217;s Mom."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/4907376607_e0a48de406_b.jpg\" alt=\"4907376607_e0a48de406_b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My job as her mother:<\/p>\n<p>1. Make sure she&#8217;s happy all the while making sure she doesn&#8217;t take advantage of that first rule.<br \/>\n2. She has one request right now and I respect that and will do whatever it takes to make sure she gets what she wants.<br \/>\n3. Make sure I can curb her skydiving addiction while at the same time feeding it too.<br \/>\n4. Remind her that driving is a privilege and not a right.<\/p>\n<p>What I have done to fulfill my duties.:<\/p>\n<p>1. I listen to her. I support her. I give her space. I smother her. I ground her. I make sure she knows the rules and follows them.<br \/>\n2. I will bend over and snap if it makes her one wish come true.\u00a0 If that means I ruin my credit beyond all measure, then so be it.<br \/>\n3. She begs to go skydiving. I remind her how many times she has been, how much it costs and promise &#8216;later&#8217;.\u00a0 I know the addiction of stepping out of that plane, the rush of the canopy opening and the ache for the feel of the ground under my feet and I let her go every few months to remind her that there is nothing that she can&#8217;t do in this life. She is stronger than any 17 year I have ever known in my life.<br \/>\n4. I swore if she decided to skip class or even be late I take the keys away.<\/p>\n<p>Next up&#8230;Alyx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 My job as her mother: 1. Make sure she&#8217;s happy all the while making sure she doesn&#8217;t take advantage of that first rule. 2. She has one request right now and I respect that and will do whatever it takes to make sure she gets what she wants. 3. Make sure I can curb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}