{"id":460,"date":"2002-05-29T17:27:16","date_gmt":"2002-05-30T00:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/05\/29\/460.html"},"modified":"2002-05-29T17:27:16","modified_gmt":"2002-05-30T00:27:16","slug":"guide-to-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/05\/29\/guide-to-parenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to parenting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While looking something up for a story edit, I came across the \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blakjak.demon.co.uk\/strbago.htm\">String Bag and Octopus Guide to Parenthood<\/a>,\" which provides various ways in which non-parents can prepare for the experience of being parents.  My favorite item is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems. First buy an octopus and a string bag. Attempt to put the octopus in the bag, so that none of its arms stick out. Time allowed for this - all morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also this: \"Go to your local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child - a fully grown goat is ideal.\"<\/p>\n<p>I imagine this is something that's been making the rounds in email for years, but I've never seen it before.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking something up for a story edit, I came across the &#8220;String Bag and Octopus Guide to Parenthood,&#8221; which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents-children"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}