{"id":223240,"date":"2022-03-03T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/30416966"},"modified":"2022-03-03T14:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:14:46","slug":"30416966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/30416966","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Narcissistic Parents Can&#8217;t Admit It When They Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image courtesy of Walter RheinMy dad always thought he was a genius. It was a family legend and the basis of his identity. When he was a kid, his mom took him in for an intelligence test. For decades his family would talk about his results. Nobody ever questioned if the results were accurate. The test was given in a rural community with minimal resources. My dad never did much with his life, but he held on to those test results. His favorite game was Scrabble. He used to challenge me to scrabble games and destroy me. I didn&#8217;t mind getting beat. I was a kid. I only wanted to spend some time with my dad. My dad loved opportunities to show off his genius. As I got older, I got better at Scrabble. Like any game, there is an element of chance with Scrabble. If you get good letters, you are going to have a high score. Even an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad always thought he was a genius. It was a family legend and the basis of his identity. When he was a kid, his mom took him in for<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223240","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=223240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}