{"id":921,"date":"2007-07-09T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=921"},"modified":"2007-07-09T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T13:51:09","slug":"battle-for-avas-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/07\/09\/battle-for-avas-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for Ava&#8217;s soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t ever really talk with other parents about how they resolve issues like whether their kids will grow up eating juicy hamburgers or dry hamburgers.<\/p>\n<p>I made turkey burgers last week (and again last night, because all I can think to do on a 95-degree day is stand over a hot grill), and Leah informed me as we sat down to eat that the burgers were too moist.\u00c2\u00a0 I was a bit confused.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d never heard of anyone looking askance at a nice, juicy burger, but here was Leah, claiming she likes her burgers &#8220;dry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I started thinking about all the hardships that lie ahead for Ava is she chooses a life of dry burgers.\u00c2\u00a0 All of the nasty looks she&#8217;ll get at restaurants and cookouts as she grows up, the snickering behind her back at school at &#8220;that girl who doesn&#8217;t like juicy burgers.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 My chest tightens at the thought of how she&#8217;ll be ostracized.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s still hope for Ava.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, the lure of a juicy burger is a difficult thing to deny.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll work on her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t ever really talk with other parents about how they resolve issues like whether their kids will grow up eating juicy hamburgers or dry hamburgers. I made turkey burgers last week (and again last night, because all I can think to do on a 95-degree day is stand over a hot grill), and Leah [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-eR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}