{"id":234,"date":"2006-03-17T20:29:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T20:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2006\/03\/17\/slightly_less_c\/"},"modified":"2006-03-17T20:29:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T20:29:31","slug":"slightly_less_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2006\/03\/17\/slightly_less_c\/","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Slightly less common than dirt?<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what my husband used to say about antiques that he considered common. <\/p>\n<p>I am being facetious. I am talking about estrangement being slightly less common than dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was showing someone I had met recently how to do some computer things. While I was waiting for software to install, we were making idle conversation. I asked if he and his wife had children. He said, &quot;Yes, a daughter.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t say anything else for a minute. Then he said, &quot;My wife&#8217;s daughter. But we don&#8217;t socialize.&quot; I asked, &quot;You mean you are estranged?&quot; He said, &quot;Yes.&quot; I said, &quot;Well, I am estranged too. You&#8217;re not alone.&quot; Then we went on to talk about other things.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, it&#8217;s common!<\/p>\n<p>Ginny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what my husband used to say about antiques that he considered common. I am being facetious. I am talking about estrangement being slightly less common than dirt. Yesterday I was showing someone I had met recently how to do some computer things. While I was waiting for software to install, we were making idle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}