{"id":1109,"date":"2008-01-19T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T15:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/01\/19\/mr-mom-no-so-much\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T15:26:25","slug":"mr-mom-no-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/01\/19\/mr-mom-no-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Mom (no so much)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks have been a lot of fun for me (not really), but it is not so much about me as it is about my wife; she had a new ACL inserted in her left knee January 8.\u00a0 For her, all I can say is ouch.\u00a0 I think she is on the mend.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I can not tell which direction I am going.<\/p>\n<p>I always appreciated my wife, and what she does, but until actually trying to fill in for her the last couple of weeks, I had no idea how much she really does.\u00a0\u00a0 I think going to the office all day is a better deal for me than staying home with three rowdy boys.<\/p>\n<p>This experience has taught me a couple of things.\u00a0 First, I have no idea how single parents keep up with work and family life.\u00a0 Second, I know why a lot of moms choose to go back to work instead of staying at home with the kids.\u00a0 Financial considerations not withstanding, working outside the home is much easier than raising kids.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks have been a lot of fun for me (not really), but it is not so much about me as it is about my wife; she had a new ACL inserted in her left knee January 8.\u00a0 For her, all I can say is ouch.\u00a0 I think she is on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/01\/19\/mr-mom-no-so-much\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. Mom (no so much)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","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-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}