{"id":5897,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/dont-sweat-messing-up-2\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","slug":"dont-sweat-messing-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/dont-sweat-messing-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Sweat Messing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most men think that they have to be perfect when they\u2019re with their kids.  This is not only not good, it&#8217;s bad training.  Better you should just continue being a mess-up.  Fall off your bike.  Drop an easy pop fly.  Order a really dumb product from some lame infomercial you saw on TV.  Make a fool of yourself on the ski slopes.  The sooner kids understand that you\u2019re not perfect, the sooner they\u2019ll realize that they don\u2019t have to be perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Joe Queenan, 47, writer and father to two.  As quoted in &#8220;Wisdom of our Fathers&#8221; by Joe Kita (Emmaus Pennsylvania: Daybreak Books, 1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most men think that they have to be perfect when they\u2019re with their kids. This is not only not good, it&#8217;s bad training. Better you should just continue being a mess-up. Fall off your bike. Drop an easy pop fly. Order a really dumb product from some lame infomercial you saw on TV. Make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[338,62,2197,3037,3359],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}