{"id":2111,"date":"2008-07-01T18:25:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2008-07-01T18:25:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T23:25:36","slug":"this-gives-me-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/this-gives-me-h\/","title":{"rendered":"This Gives Me Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;Of my ten children, a few I can raise by clearing my throat (Angel and Earnest). A few I need to carry a bazooka just to remind them who&#8217;s in charge (Butkus and Conan). Most are somewhere in between. But I don&#8217;t consider any of the ten unconquerably strong-willed.<br \/>\nHow can this be? Simple. Their mother is stronger-willed. So even when they are at their relentless worst, ultimately she will prevail. And God willing, their intense personality will over years be channeled and tempered into a force for good. Tough little people, when socialized, make for strong  big people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drray.com\/\">Dr. Ray Guarendi<\/a>, from his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drray.com\/order.htm#Discipline_That_Lasts_a_Lifetime\"><i>Discipline That Lasts A Lifetime<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Of my ten children, a few I can raise by clearing my throat (Angel and Earnest). A few I need to carry a bazooka just to remind them who&#8217;s in charge (Butkus and Conan). Most are somewhere in between. But I don&#8217;t consider any of the ten unconquerably strong-willed. How can this be? Simple. Their&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/this-gives-me-h\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Gives Me Hope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}