{"id":195,"date":"2017-03-21T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/saying-no-and-other-tragedies\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:20:00","slug":"saying-no-and-other-tragedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/saying-no-and-other-tragedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying No and other Tragedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>It is a great displeasure saying &#8220;no&#8221; to my children. Especially when the matter concerns money.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Whenever I do it (ie this am over Book Fair funds) and their face crumbles before my eyes I sense a betrayal of my youngest self who promised to NOT let my children go without wanting. I know I&#8217;m in the right. I know I have lessons to teach. I know the relativity of their pain. I know what they need or don&#8217;t need. I know I love them. None of that assuages the displeasure of issuing a warranted &#8220;no&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It has to get to get done though I hope giving a hearty hug on our way to school will ease our pain.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-m15XdmUOPGU\/WrKwhXmHMQI\/AAAAAAAB-S0\/_135Ee6B7Zcxq_tla3XZX5pym89rEoHrgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/2013-10-26%2B16.21.23.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1141\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-m15XdmUOPGU\/WrKwhXmHMQI\/AAAAAAAB-S0\/_135Ee6B7Zcxq_tla3XZX5pym89rEoHrgCLcBGAs\/s640\/2013-10-26%2B16.21.23.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a great displeasure saying &#8220;no&#8221; to my children. Especially when the matter concerns money.&nbsp; Whenever I do it (ie this am over Book Fair funds) and their face crumbles before my eyes I sense a betrayal of my youngest self who promised to NOT let my children go without wanting. I know I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/saying-no-and-other-tragedies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saying No and other Tragedies&#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":[23,124,10,614,125,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}