{"id":1903,"date":"2021-03-18T22:32:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T22:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2021-03-18T23:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:56:19","slug":"i-have-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"I have failed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went down for a second to get some Diet Coke and saw Elizabeth and Katie sitting on the couch.  So I said, &#8220;I am going to be nice to you tonight &#8211; since the games are starting.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And before I could finish, Katie said, &#8220;Oh no!  We are going to have to watch football!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am truly heartbroken at this failure.  Of course, then I convinced Katie to come upstairs with me to fill out her bracket &#8211; so I will keep hope that I can fix this failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Katie wanted me to mention that she was doing better &#8211; because we had multiple conversations this week about sports.  She was very sweet that she intentionally asked me questions about sports since I was watching a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Charlie was then picking on Katie for making the blog, and so I reminded him that he will likely make the blog when Katie&#8217;s picks that she did quickly and probably doesn&#8217;t even remember will do better than the ones he agonized about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple failures I guess for myself &#8211; but I can always feel success that I have a wonderful wife and two great kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went down for a second to get some Diet Coke and saw Elizabeth and Katie sitting on the couch. So I said, &#8220;I am going to be nice to you tonight &#8211; since the games are starting.&#8221; And before I could finish, Katie said, &#8220;Oh no! We are going to have to watch football!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}