{"id":944,"date":"2016-03-25T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2016-03-25T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T13:06:14","slug":"look-whos-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/25\/look-whos-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Who&#8217;s Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>WWG prompt: Call The Kettle Black<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Look Who\u2019s Talking<\/p>\n<p>By Kate Chamberlin<\/p>\n<p><em>March 13, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mommy,\u201d Melissa said, her shining face full of youth and joyous expectation. \u201cI\u2019m pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat!\u201d her mother darkly hissed. \u201cYou\u2019re what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMommy, you\u2019re going to be a grandmother, just like Mimi\u201d Melissa said with warmth in her voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou little slut,\u201d her mother spat out. \u201cYou\u2019re only 19. Whatever were you thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, just who do you think the father is?\u201d her mother threw at her. \u201cHow do you think you\u2019re going to support you and the baby when he booggies on out of your life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, Mom,\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs the sperm provider that bloke in the tight jeans and pink shirt?\u201d her mother cut her off. \u201cHe\u2019s just a wiper at the sleazy car wash joint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, Mom,\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow dare you embarrass our family by getting preggers without a husband,\u201d her mother loudly railed. \u201cYou\u2019re barely out of high school and no job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMother, you were 19 and unmarried with no job when you had me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, when the pot accuses the kettle of being black, it is the pot\u2019s own sooty reflection that it sees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWG prompt: Call The Kettle Black Look Who\u2019s Talking By Kate Chamberlin March 13, 2016 &nbsp; Mommy,\u201d Melissa said, her shining face full of youth and joyous expectation. \u201cI\u2019m pregnant.\u201d \u201cWhat!\u201d her mother darkly hissed. \u201cYou\u2019re what?\u201d \u201cMommy, you\u2019re going to be a grandmother, just like Mimi\u201d Melissa said with warmth in her voice. \u201cYou [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}