{"id":337,"date":"2020-05-12T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T01:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2020-05-12T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T01:04:15","slug":"things-i-learned-from-my-mother-3-consider-the-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/12\/things-i-learned-from-my-mother-3-consider-the-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Learned from My Mother (#3): Consider the options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My mother is very good at considering all the options. Almost too good. I remember times we would finally settle on where to have dinner after having a pretty lengthy discussion about it and then while we were on our way, my mother would say, \u201cOh, but we have a coupon for this other place and it expires tomorrow,\u201d and we\u2019d all say in unison, \u201cMom!\u201d because our heads tired before hers. I nicknamed her Options Woman, in an endearing way. I envisioned her in my head donning a cape. She helped me become a good chooser, without being too choosy. Thanks Mom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother is very good at considering all the options. Almost too good. I remember times we would finally settle on where to have dinner after having a pretty lengthy discussion about it and then while we were on our way, my mother would say, \u201cOh, but we have a coupon for this other place &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/12\/things-i-learned-from-my-mother-3-consider-the-options\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things I Learned from My Mother (#3): Consider the options&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}