{"id":39,"date":"2005-02-07T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4gi.wtf\/wp\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:17:25","slug":"in-recognition-of-single-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"In Recognition of Single Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up today with a cold, a URI, the sniffles, maybe the flu, the crud, whatever you want to call it, I felt (and feel) horrible. It is the sort of day when I wanted to slide back under the covers and sleep until I feel better. It was also a day, though, when <span class=\"twikiNewLink\"><a title=\"Matthew (this topic does not yet exist; you can create it)\" href=\"http:\/\/looseassociations.com\/twiki\/bin\/edit\/Matthew\/WebHome?topicparent=Looseassociations.SingleParents;nowysiwyg=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew<\/a><\/span> decided to wake up at 3:00am. It was also laundry day, and meals needed to be prepared, and <span class=\"twikiNewLink\"><a title=\"electric trains (this topic does not yet exist; you can create it)\" href=\"http:\/\/looseassociations.com\/twiki\/bin\/edit\/Matthew\/RailRoad?topicparent=Looseassociations.SingleParents;nowysiwyg=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">electric trains<\/a><\/span> needed to be repaired and then put away, and the house needed to be cleaned. Three years ago I wouldn&#8217;t have bothered. Now, I have little choice, as most of Matthew&#8217;s needs cannot wait on my health. Which brings me to a realization I have had time and again since Matthew was born: single parents have it tough. Tougher than I ever imagined, in spite of having been housemates with single moms a couple of times in my life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sure, taking care of Matthew is all fun and games, but it can get to be <em>more<\/em> fun and games than you can possibly handle. Even from my relatively privileged position (I have enough money to hire help if I need it, I can do a lot of my work from home, and I have a tirelessly helpful spouse even if she is gone 40 hours per week at her 20 hour job), it seems a monumental task when I have a fever and chills. I don&#8217;t think I could ever do it alone.<\/p>\n<p>Hats off to all the single parents out there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <span class=\"twikiNewLink\"><a title=\"RonRisley (this topic does not yet exist; you can create it)\" href=\"http:\/\/looseassociations.com\/twiki\/bin\/edit\/Main\/RonRisley?topicparent=Looseassociations.SingleParents;nowysiwyg=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ron Risley<\/a><\/span> &#8211; 07 Feb 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up today with a cold, a URI, the sniffles, maybe the flu, the crud, whatever you want to call it, I felt (and feel) horrible. It is the sort of day when I wanted to slide back under the covers and sleep until I feel better. It was also a day, though, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Recognition of Single Parents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}