{"id":2311,"date":"2008-05-11T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/05\/11\/what-is-mothers-day-all-about\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T22:44:06","slug":"what-is-mothers-day-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/what-is-mothers-day-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mother&#8217;s Day All About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s like this&#8230;  &#8220;Like many people in Minneapolis&#8217; Bryant neighborhood, Patty Crawford was outside minding her business on a sunny Mother&#8217;s Day afternoon. Then she looked up to see an SUV barrelling through her front yard at freeway speed. &#8230; Through the flying chunks of what had been her lawn, a screaming flock of squad cars soon appeared.  &#8230;  She quickly called for the kids to take cover. Then there was the deafening smash and the tinkling of shattered glass.  &#8230;  &#8220;We all just stood there and whimpered,&#8221; Crawford said later Sunday afternoon. &#8220;Really, any of us could have been in a position to get hurt. It was a miracle we didn&#8217;t.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/18843609.html\">*<\/a><!--more-->OK, well, I don&#8217;t know what that was about.  (Except I&#8217;m pretty sure they are joking about thinking a miracle had occurred&#8230;) .  But what Amanda and I have noticed is this:<em>Mother&#8217;s day is when a lot of people who normally don&#8217;t drive get into a lot of cars that are normally not driven and go to places they normally don&#8217;t go. <\/em>It is kind of like a massive, day long, slow moving not very dense surrealistic rush hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s like this&#8230; &#8220;Like many people in Minneapolis&#8217; Bryant neighborhood, Patty Crawford was outside minding her business on a sunny Mother&#8217;s Day afternoon. Then she looked up to see an SUV barrelling through her front yard at freeway speed. &#8230; Through the flying chunks of what had been her lawn, a screaming flock of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/what-is-mothers-day-all-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Mother&#8217;s Day All About?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Bh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}