{"id":1402,"date":"2016-04-21T09:29:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:29:03","slug":"original-cats-cradle-monologue-woman-in-her-30s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/uncategorized\/original-cats-cradle-monologue-woman-in-her-30s\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Cat&#8217;s Cradle Monologue- Woman in her 30s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>30s<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Attempting to play Cat&#8217;s Cradle by herself <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Did you ever play this game? I used to play it all the time&#8230;played it with my little cousins, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But it&#8217;s harder to play by yourself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I&#8217;m not planning on having children. Never was. The things I want to do, have done&#8230;not possible. And that&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s great. Besides, the responsibility? Having a little human following in my footsteps? And then they grow up and what happens if they&#8217;re little shits? If they&#8217;re rude or racist or&#8230;who knows what else. I don&#8217;t want that responsibility. And besides, I&#8217;ve got things to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">My friend from high school, Caddie, she&#8217;s got three kids. Started having them as soon as graduated. She was just&#8230;so ready to be a mother. And now she has three little terrors, running around, complicating things&#8230;her house is littered with board games. And I&#8217;ve never seen a kid play one. They&#8217;re always playing games like this. <i>Gestures to Cat&#8217;s Cradle. Plays silently for a few moments.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat&#8217;s cradle is nothing but a bunch of X&#8217;s between somebody&#8217;s hands and little kids look and look and look at all those X&#8217;s&#8230;and&#8230;..no damn cat, and no damn cradle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30s Attempting to play Cat&#8217;s Cradle by herself Did you ever play this game? I used to play it all the time&#8230;played it with my little cousins, so&#8230; But it&#8217;s harder to play by yourself. I&#8217;m not planning on having children. Never was. The things I want to do, have done&#8230;not possible. And that&#8217;s okay. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/uncategorized\/original-cats-cradle-monologue-woman-in-her-30s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Original Cat&#8217;s Cradle Monologue- Woman in her 30s<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}