{"id":2528,"date":"2014-06-05T21:48:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T02:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T02:48:46","slug":"the-boys-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/06\/05\/the-boys-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy&#8217;s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanted to signal boost <a href=\"http:\/\/skeptischism.com\/periscopedepth\/2014\/06\/04\/boys-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\">this tragic tale<\/a>\u00a0from my buddy SubManUSN over at Skeptic Schism. If you draw something from it, please leave him a comment and let him know.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My mom had been estranged from us either by her choice or by my stepmother\u2019s actions. To explain that last sentence, when I was picked up by my mom and my aunt (the same aunt from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/skeptischism.com\/periscopedepth\/2014\/03\/08\/daddy-why-are-you-crying\/\">Daddy Why Are You Crying<\/a>\u201d ) I was informed of the many letters my mom had written and mailed which I had never gotten. In one of them she detailed her falling out with the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. In another, her divorce and re-marrying. She\u2019d had another child, also. I now had a sister. The drive to my mom\u2019s place was very informative to say the least.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have often wished that I could write autobiographically, but I don&#8217;t have the knack or the nerve for it. I also don&#8217;t have stories anywhere nearly this dark, and for that I will always thank my mother, my adoptive father, and my great good fortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanted to signal boost this tragic tale\u00a0from my buddy SubManUSN over at Skeptic Schism. If you draw something from it,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}