{"id":184,"date":"2007-03-11T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/11\/welcome-to-the-sick-ward\/"},"modified":"2007-03-11T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:26:14","slug":"welcome-to-the-sick-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Sick Ward&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come on in&#8230;stay awhile. That is, if you don&#8217;t mind getting coughed on, puked on, or whined at.<\/p>\n<p>While you are here can you please figure out how you are supposed to get juice or clean up a sick child, while another sick child is feverishly plastered to your body? Putting down the child doesn&#8217;t seem to be an option, unless you can stand the piercing screams of anguish, the &#8220;why do you put me on the couch by myself for more than 20 seconds?&#8221; scream of terror.<\/p>\n<p>How about just picking up all of the half-empty sippy cups and putting them into the dishwasher? Or could you throw in a load of &#8220;sick&#8221; towels while you&#8217;re at it?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that?? You&#8217;re leaving so soon? But you haven&#8217;t even heard any of the complete meltdowns due to fever and exhuastion. There are some real &#8220;goodies!&#8221;\u00a0 Stick around and you&#8217;ll be amazed at the amount of pure whining that can happen in a span of 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, fine! We&#8217;ll see you later. Thanks for dropping by.<\/p>\n<p>Just one thing&#8230;PLEASE take me with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come on in&#8230;stay awhile. That is, if you don&#8217;t mind getting coughed on, puked on, or whined at. While you are here can you please figure out how you are supposed to get juice or clean up a sick child, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-2Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}