Everyday life is full of pitfalls.<\/p>\n
I was wrapping a present for Ava two nights ago, and emblazoned across one corner of the huge box were the words “Easy Clean.”\u00c2\u00a0 In quotes.\u00c2\u00a0 Like it wasn’t really <\/em>easy to clean.\u00c2\u00a0 Why the quotes?\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect there’s a lawyer behind them somewhere.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be nice if the items in this gift were easy to clean.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a box full of play food to accompany the big kitchen set Leah picked out for Ava.<\/p>\n Why, I can just see myself initiating legal action after realizing that it’s much more difficult to clean oatmeal off a plastic strawberry than I thought it was going to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Time is money, people.<\/p>\n It’s a real (damn) shame that what I’m passing off as hyperbole above is totally within the realm of acceptable recourse for some parents out there.\u00c2\u00a0 And those parents will likely raise their own little litigious courtroom monkeys.\u00c2\u00a0 If there are still lawyers in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everyday life is full of pitfalls. I was wrapping a present for Ava two nights ago, and emblazoned across one corner of the huge box were the words “Easy Clean.”\u00c2\u00a0 In quotes.\u00c2\u00a0 Like it wasn’t really easy to clean.\u00c2\u00a0 Why the quotes?\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect there’s a lawyer behind them somewhere.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be nice if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-aw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}