{"id":126854,"date":"2022-10-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=126854"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:10:21","slug":"an-ode-to-crying-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/an-ode-to-crying-babies","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Crying Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim LahanCrying baby, I hear you.I&#8217;ve got no choice but to hear you. You&#8217;re 10 rows ahead of me in Economy, raging like Lear on the heath. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! You&#8217;re challenging the gods, the elements, the injustice of life. You may also have gas.Who is by your side as you arraign the universe? Who is with you at this ultimate moment? Lear had his Fool, and you have your parents. Wan, stretched, stooping presences. They loom over you uncertainly. Exhaustedly. Most horrible, with the last of their energy, they bicker&#8201;: Even as they attend to you, they&#8217;re saying quiet, vile things to each other. If they get divorced, crying baby, it&#8217;s your fault.But listen: I appreciate you. I appreciate your outspokenness. These bodies we&#8217;re in, they&#8217;re not always the greatest, are they? They itch, they sting, they ache, they bloat, they overheat. They feel weird. They get tired. They make us grumpy. (Which is, now that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got no choice but to hear you. You&#8217;re 10 rows ahead of me in Economy, raging like Lear on the heath. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! You&#8217;re challenging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,1],"tags":[232,230,55],"class_list":["post-126854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-relationships","category-news","tag-family-relationships","tag-relationships","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}