{"id":181581,"date":"2016-05-13T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/13\/another-failure-as-a-parent\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T00:56:00","slug":"another-failure-as-a-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/13\/another-failure-as-a-parent\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Failure as a Parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie shared a quote he saw on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>He thought that it was brilliant, but he had no clue where it came from:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>CB<\/b>: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war two great super-armies developed. Us, the Russians and the French on one side, Germany and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea being that each army would act as the other&#8217;s deterrent. That way, there could never be a war.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>PB<\/b>: Except, this is sort of a war, isn&#8217;t it?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>CB<\/b>: That&#8217;s right. There was one tiny flaw in the plan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>LG<\/b>: O, what was that?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>CB<\/b>: It was bollocks. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agreed that it was brilliant, and it seemed a bit fmailiar.<\/p>\n<p>I asked it what it was from, and he looked down said, &#8220;Something called Blackadder?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My kids have never seen any of the Blackadder series.<\/p>\n<p>I have failed as a parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie shared a quote he saw on the internet. He thought that it was brilliant, but he had no clue where it came from: CB: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war two great super-armies developed. Us, the Russians and the French on one side, Germany and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea being &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,987,976,1064,1157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-fail","category-family","category-media","category-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}