{"id":4428,"date":"2024-02-28T09:43:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T05:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2024-02-28T06:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:51:57","slug":"todays-hot-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4428","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s hot take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many times on this blog and elsewhere I have noted the great and universal truism of life: we all turn into our parents.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no sense in fighting it. It&#8217;s going to happen. For the past decade I&#8217;ve resigned myself to the fact and tried to embrace the fact that, well, I&#8217;ve become my dad.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s hot take?<\/p>\n<p>Your parents become your grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>This should be obvious, right? I mean, they literally\u00a0<em>are<\/em> grandparents. But more than that there&#8217;s going to become\u00a0<em>your<\/em> grandparents. The folks you remember from when you were a kid&#8230; you&#8217;ll see them again like 30 years later, proof that they&#8217;re doing the thing you&#8217;ll eventually do as well.<\/p>\n<p>Nice to know you&#8217;ll see your grandparents again.<\/p>\n<p>And your parents.<\/p>\n<p>Every time you look in the mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many times on this blog and elsewhere I have noted the great and universal truism of life: we all turn into our parents. There&#8217;s no sense in fighting it. It&#8217;s going to happen. For the past decade I&#8217;ve resigned myself &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4428\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}