{"id":48744,"date":"2022-04-29T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48744"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:29:14","slug":"dad-brog-085-let-the-scapegoating-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48744","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog (#085): Let the scapegoating begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-48745 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4794.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4794.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4794-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The bubbling in the tub didn\u2019t even finish before #1 boisterously proclaimed that <strong><em>#2 farted<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The thing is though, #2 was not the one who had farted in the tub, it was most definitely #1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mythical wife and I cracked up because <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CCtiQTQQ7QA\">farts are fucking hilarious<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">However, it wasn\u2019t just because of that, but also because this was not the first time that this had happened, where #1 had flagrantly thrown her little sister under the bus.\u00a0 The first time was a funny anomaly, but it happening again appears to be the start of a pattern: the classic tactic of <em>blaming your sibling<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For now, it\u2019s just farting, but who knows what #2 will get blamed for in coming days, weeks, months and years.\u00a0 The most fascinating thing about it is how organic and how completely unprovoked and untrained in which this happened.\u00a0 We\u2019re still at the stage of parenting where just about everything is okay and is teachable, and isn\u2019t necessarily a bad behavior in which #1 should feel embarrassed or feel the need to pawn off on her little sister, but she\u2019s decided to do it anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Otherwise, my kids are the joy of my life, and absolutely nothing in the world brings me more happiness than seeing how much my daughters love each other.\u00a0 Even if #1 has decided to use her little sister as a scapegoat now, and I\u2019ll probably have sisters declare Mortal Kombat on each other at some points in their lives, for the time being, seeing the pure, tender and wholesome love between the sisters are the best parts of any given day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But how fast those tables turn once #1 rips a fart and decides that #2 is the guilty party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mark this as one of the brog posts that I hope one day my children will read and then cringe and bemoan the fact that this is an embarrassing story about them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bubbling in the tub didn\u2019t even finish before #1 boisterously proclaimed that #2 farted.\u00a0 The thing is though, #2 was not the one who had farted in the tub, it was most definitely #1.\u00a0 Mythical wife and I cracked up because farts are fucking hilarious. However, it wasn\u2019t just because of that, but also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dad Brog (#085): Let the scapegoating begin<\/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":[193,71,192,52],"class_list":["post-48744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-dad","tag-famiry","tag-kids","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48744","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=48744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48746,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48744\/revisions\/48746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}