{"id":2063,"date":"2010-01-05T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2010-01-05T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T13:20:03","slug":"a-short-letter-to-my-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/a-short-letter-to-my-toes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Letter to my Toes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Toes,<\/p>\n<p>I trust that this note finds you and yours well.\u00c2\u00a0 I am writing to you in an effort to mend our long relationship (37 years! wow) and I hope you will find it in your cuticles to read it with an open mind.\u00c2\u00a0 I know things haven&#8217;t always been great between us, we have had our ups and downs.\u00c2\u00a0 Mostly good though.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember when you got tickled almost every day when I was a kid?\u00c2\u00a0 Good times.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, when I smashed three of you yesterday in the dark when I was getting ready for work, I wasn&#8217;t mad at you, it was an accident.\u00c2\u00a0 Sulking like that isn&#8217;t very mature of you, and it just hurts us both.\u00c2\u00a0 I have almost smashed those same three toes twice since then, and I think you are just doing that on purpose.\u00c2\u00a0 We used to have a deal (an understanding, if you will), where I wouldn&#8217;t smash you into things, and you would at least try to stay out of harm&#8217;s way.\u00c2\u00a0 This business of swelling and getting red really isn&#8217;t becoming, you really should stop that.\u00c2\u00a0 Deal?<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly,<\/p>\n<p>Courtney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Toes, I trust that this note finds you and yours well.\u00c2\u00a0 I am writing to you in an effort to mend our long relationship (37 years! wow) and I hope you will find it in your cuticles to read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/a-short-letter-to-my-toes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","tag-toes-are-so-immature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-xh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}