{"id":187,"date":"2005-07-18T20:27:04","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T20:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:27:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:27:34","slug":"monte-cristo-selfish-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/monte-cristo-selfish-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Cristo: Selfish Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting  perspective on parenthood from the bachelor Maximilian Morrel in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=mjtate-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0679601996\/qid=1121566467\/sr=8-2\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846\">The Count of Monte Cristo<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh,  you are playing with me, like those good or rather selfish mothers who  soothe their children with honied words, because their screams annoy  them.\u201d (p. 1347)<\/p>\n<p>Ouch.\u00a0 I&#8217;m afraid I  have at times been guilty of selfishly soothing screaming children  rather than disciplining and training them.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it funny (odd funny,  certainly not ha-ha funny!) how little bits of conviction pop up in the  most surprising places?<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting perspective on parenthood from the bachelor Maximilian Morrel in The Count of Monte Cristo: \u201cAh, you are playing with me, like those good or rather selfish mothers who soothe their children with honied words, because their screams annoy them.\u201d (p. 1347) Ouch.\u00a0 I&#8217;m afraid I have at times been guilty of selfishly soothing screaming &#8230; <a title=\"Monte Cristo: Selfish Mothers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/monte-cristo-selfish-mothers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Monte Cristo: Selfish Mothers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}