{"id":3110,"date":"2014-08-08T18:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T02:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2014-08-08T18:32:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T02:32:35","slug":"would-you-rather-jerk-or-dork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=3110","title":{"rendered":"Would you rather&#8230; jerk or dork?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have the most incredible inspirations and insights at bedtime&#8230; at least that is when I have the privilege of hearing some of them.  About 15 minutes after the 14th time I&#8217;ve finally succombed to the ridiculous urge to command you to &#8220;Please.  Just go to sleep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>True to form, after packing up the condo in Delaware, driving 8 hours home, &#8230; (fill in all the in-between things), unpacking here at home, I was desperately trying to get you to go to sleep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mama?<br \/>\nYes Sweetie.<br \/>\nWould you rather date a jerk or a dork?<br \/>\n(You always suck me in with you&#8217;re interesting questions, as I am so curious about your thinking&#8230;)<br \/>\nA dork, I answer<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\nBecause he could be sweet, witty, kind, and could really care about me and others.<br \/>\nWhy not a jerk?<br \/>\nOh, I don&#8217;t know. I guess I think of people being called jerks b\/c they think only about themselves and are sometimes willing to hurt others for that.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you agree&#8230; and then reinterpret for me: That&#8217;s what I think too.  I think about it this way: What&#8217;s on the insides matters more than whats on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, I agree, and smile.  And that&#8217;s that for tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have the most incredible inspirations and insights at bedtime&#8230; at least that is when I have the privilege of hearing some of them. About 15 minutes after the 14th time I&#8217;ve finally succombed to the ridiculous urge to command you to &#8220;Please. Just go to sleep.&#8221; True to form, after packing up the condo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}