{"id":51602,"date":"2026-10-19T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51602"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:36:33","slug":"dad-brog-178-i-wonder-where-this-savage-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51602","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog (#178): I wonder where this savage comes from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-51603 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7428.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_7428-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">What we have here is a photograph of a worksheet that my younger child did in class; it was the 50<sup>th<\/sup> day of school, which means it was the 50<sup>th<\/sup> day of elementary school ever for my child, and they were having a little fun with the number 50.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">However, as we can see, #2 has decided that this was a great opportunity to, in writing, get some things off her chest; stating that <em>what she would never want 50 of<\/em> is, her older sister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I\u2019m pleased to see that she even nailed pluralizing it too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I asked mythical wife if maybe there was some spat in the drive to school, or at arrival that compelled #2 to want to air out some grievances with her older sister, but no, nothing at all.\u00a0 Just plain old sibling angst, bubbled up to where it\u2019s now in writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">All the same, it is a pretty savage take to have, but such is the nature of my younger child, whom many have used the phrase, spicy, to describe her personality at times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A while back, before mythical wife and I got married, my now mother-in-law posted a reel of a runway model with a veil being held up by balloons, tagging then-mythical gf, cheekily suggesting it for her own wedding.\u00a0 With no hesitation, she responds with how much she hates the idea, hates the video, and hates how frequently it seemed to show up for her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">When I saw her comment, I decided to troll my then-future wife, and rebut that:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> <em>this cauldron of hate is my future wife<\/em>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I thought it was funny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Point is, this kind of answers the rhetorical question that is the subject of this brog post, and clearly this apple hasn\u2019t fallen that far from the tree.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Heaven help the world once she\u2019s out on her own.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we have here is a photograph of a worksheet that my younger child did in class; it was the 50th day of school, which means it was the 50th day of elementary school ever for my child, and they were having a little fun with the number 50. However, as we can see, #2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dad Brog (#178): I wonder where this savage comes from?<\/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":[100,193,192,177,129,83,105,156],"class_list":["post-51602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-dad","tag-kids","tag-mythical","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-rage","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51602","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=51602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51604,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51602\/revisions\/51604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}