{"id":957,"date":"2007-04-25T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/04\/the-bad-and-the-good\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T18:45:00","slug":"the-bad-and-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/the-bad-and-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad and the Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;<br \/>I had to clean up a dead mouse yesterday<br \/>But it&#8217;s good that&#8230;<br \/>It was outside and not inside.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;<br \/>Nat had a terrible, painful meltdown Tuesday night<br \/>But it&#8217;s good that&#8230;<br \/>He was extremely verbal about all the things that were bothering him and he went to bed early.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;<br \/>I only just discovered bellydance in my 40&#8217;s rather than as a young woman &#8212; I&#8217;ll probably never become a professional dancer<br \/>It&#8217;s good that&#8230;<br \/>I am getting better and better at it and Ned likes me buying beautiful costumes and dancing for him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;<br \/>Our best toilet is out of commission until tomorrow<br \/>It&#8217;s good that&#8230;<br \/>We finally replaced the old drain in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;<br \/>It cost $5700<br \/>It&#8217;s good that&#8230;<br \/>We never have to worry about sewage again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;<br \/>I will never again know what young new love feels like<br \/>It&#8217;s good that&#8230;<br \/>I know what strong old love, the real thing, feels like<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;<br \/>I have not yet heard from my editor, who has had the proposal for weeks!<br \/>It&#8217;s good that&#8230;<br \/>She just emailed to say she will be back to me in one week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;<br \/>I won&#8217;t be having any more babies<br \/>It&#8217;s good that&#8230;<br \/>My boys are handsome, strong, healthy, (knock wood), and kind<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;<br \/>it is raining again<br \/>It&#8217;s good that&#8230;<br \/>Everything is greener than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;I had to clean up a dead mouse yesterdayBut it&#8217;s good that&#8230;It was outside and not inside. It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;Nat had a terrible, painful meltdown Tuesday nightBut it&#8217;s good that&#8230;He was extremely verbal about all the things that were bothering him and he went to bed early. It&#8217;s bad that&#8230;I only just discovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-fr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}