{"id":492,"date":"2011-02-11T20:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T03:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2011-02-11T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T03:18:09","slug":"entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"entitlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a few months ago, i wrote a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?s=entitlement&amp;searchsubmit=Find\">entitlement<\/a> and with a lot of wondering about when i would feel like i was 100% baby dude&#8217;s mom and&#8230; i&#8217;m not sure when it happened, or how exactly, but i think i&#8217;m there.<\/p>\n<p>recently, a friend of mine was telling me about an adoption song on keb mo&#8217;s &#8220;big wide grin&#8221; album called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.superlyrics.com\/lyrics\/kGRU0IEzN2@H@h\/I_Am_Your_Mother_Too_lyrics_by_Keb%27_Mo%27.html\">i am your mother too<\/a>&#8221; and she warned me that it would probably make me cry.\u00a0 so i waited until i had some quiet time and i listened to the song.\u00a0 and i didn&#8217;t get weepy, i got irritated.<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s the chorus:<\/p>\n<pre>And though you came from the womb of another,\r\nWe will care for you.\r\nLife is your sister and Love is your brother\r\nAnd I am you mother too.\r\nI am your father too.\r\nWe are your family too.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>i am your mother TOO?\u00a0 TOO?!\u00a0 why qualify it?\u00a0 i AM your mother!<\/p>\n<p>hmmm&#8230;..maybe i&#8217;ve gone a little too far with this entitlement thing?\u00a0 but at least apparently some of the ditherings from that last reflective post have been resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a few months ago, i wrote a post about entitlement and with a lot of wondering about when i would feel like i was 100% baby dude&#8217;s mom and&#8230; i&#8217;m not sure when it happened, or how exactly, but i think i&#8217;m there. recently, a friend of mine was telling me about an adoption song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}