{"id":2584,"date":"2009-06-05T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2009-06-04T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:06:50","slug":"those-pesky-hormones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"Those pesky hormones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to smile when I saw the headline &#8211; &#8220;How can a man cope with his moody pregnant wife?&#8221; &#8211; on a favorite blog of mine. The blogger went on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfmoms\/detail?blogid=46&#038;entry_id=39331\">discuss<\/a> the challenges of dealing with a pregnant woman&#8217;s mood swings and told the story of a husband who said of his wife, &#8220;It&#8217;s like I don&#8217;t even know her anymore.&#8221; The writer also recalled how she once majorly flipped out when, during her third trimester, she couldn&#8217;t enjoy a twice-baked potato when she wanted one. (It was, of course her husband&#8217;s fault.)<\/p>\n<p>I know more than anyone how moody\/irrational\/crazy\/ pregnancy can make someone; sadly, I think I&#8217;m more susceptible to hormonal ups-and-downs than the average woman. Poor Q has dealt with his fair share of ranting and raving and even tantruming, and I thank my lucky stars that he has taken everything in stride &#8211; never losing his patience (or, at least, never showing it) and always accepting my later apologies and hugs. I&#8217;m not sure how he puts up with me &#8211; but I&#8217;m glad he has. And I look forward to the day when hormones don&#8217;t cause me to freak out over something as small as a twice-baked potato!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to smile when I saw the headline &#8211; &#8220;How can a man cope with his moody pregnant wife?&#8221; &#8211; on a favorite blog of mine. The blogger went on to discuss the challenges of dealing with a pregnant woman&#8217;s mood swings and told the story of a husband who said of his wife, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34two-and-a-half-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}