{"id":184101,"date":"2012-08-04T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/04\/i-hate-my-son\/"},"modified":"2012-08-04T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T05:12:00","slug":"i-hate-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/04\/i-hate-my-son\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate My Son*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, we were driving back from the bookstore, and I ended up mentioning<i>Mad Magazine<\/i>, and he goes, &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I feel like I&#8217;m older than Methuselah, because, after all, what twelve year old doesn&#8217;t know about <i>Mad<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>So&nbsp; I explain what it is, and give him a primer on the magazine, and the history of EC Comics, and what it was all about.<\/p>\n<p>As we are parking, he reveals that he is fully cognizant of <i>Mad<\/i>, and that  he&#8217;s been pulling my chain.<\/p>\n<p>Sharper than a serpent&#8217;s tooth.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently developing an appropriate plan for revenge.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Not really, but I have to get him back for this. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we were driving back from the bookstore, and I ended up mentioningMad Magazine, and he goes, &#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; So I feel like I&#8217;m older than Methuselah, because, after all, what twelve year old doesn&#8217;t know about Mad? So&nbsp; I explain what it is, and give him a primer on the magazine, and the history &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184101"}],"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=184101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}