{"id":221,"date":"2016-12-31T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/31\/sleepless-in-monrovia\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T16:20:00","slug":"sleepless-in-monrovia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/31\/sleepless-in-monrovia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepless in Monrovia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I find myself barely holding on after a very long night of struggle. Cold and frustrated I realize that I am solely responsible for the choices I made yesterday. I hope this confession serves as warning to others and as I think of my wife now sleeping on the couch I hope to have learned my lesson. But I&#8217;ve done this before and since past is prologue I fear this may happen again. <o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The YouTube is full of scary videos about Chupacabras, Big Feet, ghosts in photos, Jersey Devils, Slender Men, Dutch peole and more. Watching these creepy-pastas with the kids is a sure way to have a rebellion based on fears at bed time. We acquiesced and let them sleep in hours. Trying to share space with two kids and two dogs is no fun and I spent most the night moderating groggy disagreements over imaginary borders, shifting confused mutts about and seeing my wedge of the bed shrink and shrink and shrink. <o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I&#8217;d carp more but only have myself to blame.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-pezOfYyTCbs\/WGfajxUjh6I\/AAAAAAAB9xY\/d3F2qTw2pQwlP7sq6YjZk-ZK6MsYJd7TACK4B\/s1600\/2013-10-27%2B19.25.18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-pezOfYyTCbs\/WGfajxUjh6I\/AAAAAAAB9xY\/d3F2qTw2pQwlP7sq6YjZk-ZK6MsYJd7TACK4B\/s640\/2013-10-27%2B19.25.18.jpg\" width=\"598\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself barely holding on after a very long night of struggle. Cold and frustrated I realize that I am solely responsible for the choices I made yesterday. I hope this confession serves as warning to others and as I think of my wife now sleeping on the couch I hope to have learned &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/31\/sleepless-in-monrovia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sleepless in Monrovia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,23,10,702,700,125,7,699,701],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}