{"id":47663,"date":"2021-01-27T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47663"},"modified":"2021-01-27T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:32:26","slug":"new-father-brogging-034","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47663","title":{"rendered":"New Father Brogging, #034"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Normally, I wait until I finish a series before I write about it, but I feel like writing right now, and there\u2019s no guarantee that feeling will last later.\u00a0 But I\u2019m just about finished with The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em> on Netflix.\u00a0 Although some of the subject matter about substance abuse is a little uncomfortable watch, not because I can relate so much as it\u2019s just not always pleasant watching people degrade themselves through the things they do to themselves, it\u2019s an excellent series that I\u2019ve enjoyed very much and hope the finish is as strong as the series has been.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a show that\u2019s legitimately made chess seem as cool as I typically think it is from a metaphorical standpoint into actually being cool to watch a series that revolves around it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever I run on the treadmill, I\u2019m usually watching wrestling highlights or shit on the WWE Network, most notably any of the documentaries that the service continuously puts out much to my delight because if there\u2019s one thing that the WWE does very well, it\u2019s produce documentaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the documentaries that I enjoy the most, are usually the ones that are about the female talent.\u00a0 Alexa Bliss, Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, and most recently, an episode of Chronicle<\/em> about Bianca Belair, which was especially good, because she\u2019s a particularly extraordinary woman in the sense that she\u2019s probably pound-for-pound the best athlete in professional wrestling, but also a hell of an artistic talent that designs and fabricates all of her own ring attire.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I\u2019m getting at is that especially lately, I\u2019ve been enjoying watching stories, be them fiction or documentaries, about strong women, because as a dad to a daughter, it lets my imagination run wild about what my own little girl can grow up to be when she hopefully becomes a strong, talented and intelligent woman one day.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying that I want her to be a chess grandmaster or a professional wrestler, specifically, but what I do want for my kid, and it wouldn\u2019t have mattered if she were a boy or a girl, is for her to find at least one thing; one hobby, one activity, that they can hopefully become passionate about and hold onto through adolescence.\u00a0 Swimming. Drawing. \u00a0Gymnastics.\u00a0 Piano.\u00a0 Martial arts.\u00a0 Anything at all; multiple would be great, but I really just want her to have at least one thing, that she can hold onto, and make into some sort of lifelong habit.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the few regrets I have in my life is the fact that of all the things that I was doing as a kid; piano, Tae Kwon Do, basketball, drawing, Japanese language; I never really held onto any one of those things, never persevered through adolescence with any of those potential talents, and I let the talents and skills erode and fade away over time, and I can only wish that I didn\u2019t, and that I could be above average at any one of those things today.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want my daughter to make the same choice, and obviously I know there\u2019s a fine line of her voluntarily maintaining an activity versus being volun-told to stick with it, with the latter obviously leading to inevitable failure, but all I can do is really hope to encourage and let her make her own choices with her life, and watching stories of strong females in the world today gives me hope that there\u2019s an endless bag full of possibilities for my daughter in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally, I wait until I finish a series before I write about it, but I feel like writing right now, and there\u2019s no guarantee that feeling will last later.\u00a0 But I\u2019m just about finished with The Queen\u2019s Gambit on Netflix.\u00a0 Although some of the subject matter about substance abuse is a little uncomfortable watch, not … Continue reading New Father Brogging, #034<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,34,192,99],"class_list":["post-47663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-dad","tag-dreams","tag-kids","tag-reminiscing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47665,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47663\/revisions\/47665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}