{"id":2292,"date":"2020-11-12T12:24:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:24:47","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2292","title":{"rendered":"Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waiting<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\u201cMom, I want to go out and play,\u201d I said, feeling quite bored being stuck at home once again.
\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry dear,\u201d was her quick reply. \u201cYou know you can\u2019t go out yet. Especially today, I\u2019m working on a special project.\u201d
\n\u201cBut you\u2019re always working on a special project,\u201d was my retort. \u201cEvery day, every night you are doing something. If it\u2019s not raining on someone else\u2019s parade, It\u2019s playing with fire or blowing something away. How come you get all the fun and I have to stay home with dad. All he ever does is sit around all day getting older. Borrring!\u201d
\nMom looked at me with forlorn eyes. There really wasn\u2019t much she could do. After all, there wasn\u2019t much I could do outside. It wasn\u2019t in my nature to do the things that she did and as for my father, I guess I was expected to follow in his footsteps, but did you see all of the things he screwed up this year. He was aging faster than anyone has ever aged. I\u2019d be surprised if he lasted another month the way he is going. And mom didn\u2019t help. Her messing around all over the world certainly made things worse.
\nSo what was I to do? Learn from my father\u2019s mistakes? He tried to take it slowly, but boy did that not work out. The more he dragged on the worse it got. It would have been nice if he had some support from other people or mom. Some people tried to help my dad pass time, but others, just ignored him and my mom or worked against them. That didn\u2019t help at all.<\/p>\n

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\nI understand that there is a new group of people that are willing to work with me and my mom to try and make my life more fun. I certainly look forward to that. Unfortunately, dad just crawls along. And mom, even though she knows I should take the controls from dad on January 1st, said that I won\u2019t be effective at all until January 20th for whatever reason.
\nI guess I just have to wait my turn. But boy, do I have plans, once I\u2019m in charge. Beware world; I\u2019m planning on having a good time. I\u2019ve even convinced my mom to let me help her some. I plan to work hard and with all those new people so that when I get old, everyone will remember what a great person I was. And when I have a kid, they will have a good example follow for generations to come.
\n\u201cMom, can\u2019t I go out just a little bit, so I\u2019m ready to take over?\u201d I asked again, ready to sneak out.
\n\u201cYour time will come. You just have to be patient. Now don\u2019t you go sneaking out on me, you know it\u2019s not easy to fool me.\u201d
\n\u201cOkay,\u201d I replied. I guess I will see you all next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waiting \u201cMom, I want to go out and play,\u201d I said, feeling quite bored being stuck at home once again. \u201cI\u2019m sorry dear,\u201d was her quick reply. \u201cYou know you can\u2019t go out yet. Especially today, I\u2019m working on a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[273,67,272],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-stories","category-story-writing","tag-father-time","tag-harvey-heilbrun","tag-mother-nature"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}