{"id":2848,"date":"2011-05-07T06:29:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T10:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2011-05-07T06:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T10:29:53","slug":"mombardment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2848","title":{"rendered":"Mombardment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made this one up.\u00a0 Actually, I discovered it by accident because of a fortuitous typo.\u00a0 It means an excessive amount of mothering, a lotta mom, a lotta maternal attention.\u00a0 There’s no value judgment in the word; it can be both positive and negative.<\/p>\n

Positive – All that mombardment when I was sick on Monday really helped me get back on my feet by Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Negative – “Did you finish your homework, your piano practicing, your chores?”\u00a0 So much mombardment is stifling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made this one up.\u00a0 Actually, I discovered it by accident because of a fortuitous typo.\u00a0 It means an excessive amount of mothering, a lotta mom, a lotta maternal attention.\u00a0 There’s no value judgment in the word; it can be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[387,386,377,385,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}