{"id":4503,"date":"2012-04-01T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2012-04-01T14:34:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T20:34:43","slug":"one-is-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=4503","title":{"rendered":"One Is Too Much&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;A thousand is never enough.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60141310@N00\/7033784255\/\" title=\"IMG_5684 by banjobear, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7247\/7033784255_571fc12da6.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_5684\"><\/a\n\nIt was my seven year olds first kid birthday party yesterday. \n\nMy youngest use to be much less social then he is now and not really interested in playing with other kids.  He never really wanted to have kids over to play, so the kid party thing hasn't been an issue.  Till this year.  He was all about the birthday party this year.\n\nI use to do kid birthday parties for my older son, till he was about ten or eleven.  They were the typical american style crap fest: grocery store made cakes -with the obligatory superhero\/dinosaur theme- pizza, ice cream.  \n\nI did a pretty good job this year.  I made gluten free cupcakes and homemade chocolate frosting: dark chocolate chips, grapeseed oil, vanilla extract, and, agave nectar.  A sugary still, but chemical free.  There was whole milk instead pop or kool-aid, and two really good buddies of his.  \n\nHe really wanted a pinata for his birthday this year.  \n\nOk.  That was simple enough...\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60141310@N00\/7033964403\/\" title=\"IMG_5687 by banjobear, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7188\/7033964403_6f367b3a3b.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_5687\"><\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;or maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Tootsie Rolls are one of my no-no-no-no&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>Those and 7-11 eclairs.  7-11 eclairs are like no other donut I&#8217;ve ever had.  <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re evil in a glass case. I don&#8217;t know what they put in them, but it creates a near slavish like addiction in my brain.  <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even pretend to control those.  <\/p>\n<p>Tootsie Rolls I can be around as long as I don&#8217;t open any. I&#8217;ve been good and resisted.  Fortunately the kids are not too candy driven, I keep offering them stuff they do like instead.  Soon they will forget and in the trash they&#8217;ll go.  <\/p>\n<p>I sometimes wonder if my life will be about anything else other than food. <\/p>\n<p>Too much food, too little food, the right food, the wrong food.<\/p>\n<p>Food <\/p>\n<p>Food <\/p>\n<p>Food<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s stupid that something that should be so simple can get so complicated.  I hope I am some how making a difference in my kids life and they will be farther away from the lifestyle obesity problems that have haunted my family.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, three out of four dinosaurs agree; the hell with the timeline, penguins are TOTALLY paleo.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re sort of short fuzzy flightless pterosaurs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60141310@N00\/7033965695\/\" title=\"IMG_5682 by banjobear, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7265\/7033965695_8efd82904c.jpg\" width=\"497\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_5682\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;A thousand is never enough.<\/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-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4525,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}