{"id":94,"date":"2005-08-01T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=94"},"modified":"2005-08-01T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T07:02:00","slug":"for-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"For the Record…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been on Fear Factor.<\/a> Apparently someone with the same name as me was; but I assure you, I have no desire either to torture myself or to degrade myself for prize money. <\/p>\n

I should point out, as long as I’m at it, that I am also not a Canadian songwriter<\/a> or a professional photographer,<\/a> and I’ve never written a press release for Newt Gingrich.<\/a><\/p>\n

What I am is a wife and mother. Now, I know that some people think of those words with “just” or “only” in front of them. I remember when I was carrying my first child and I ran into an old teacher of mine. I glowingly told her of my good news, that I’d been married for two years and was expecting. She looked confused and said “I thought you were smart.”<\/p>\n

And here I am years later, glancing between the invite to my twentieth high school reunion and my not-yet-swelling belly, giving thanks that whatever I might do in regards to a career one day, I know that family and God will always be the real priority.<\/p>\n

Alas, I’ve never bobbed for pig tongues in a vatful of fat, but I am surrounded by love. I wouldn’t trade for all the fame of the others who share my name. If you came to this site looking for Fear Factor, I am sorry to disappoint you. I am “just” discalced and with child. And I am happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been on Fear Factor. Apparently someone with the same name as me was; but I assure you, I have no desire either to torture myself or to degrade myself for prize money. I should point out, as long as I’m at it, that I am also not a Canadian songwriter or a professional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}