{"id":9555,"date":"2015-11-21T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T21:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2016-01-18T15:26:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T20:26:45","slug":"the-bitter-truth-on-bluntmoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/the-bitter-truth-on-bluntmoms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bitter Truth on BLUNTmoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my first original piece was published on BLUNTmoms.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-wp-1448142826407.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1448142826407\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-wp-1448142826407.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It was a tough piece to write, stemming from some of the comments I received on my &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/homeschool-in-my-defense\/\">Homeschool: In My Defense<\/a>&#8221; which was a response to the many comments I got on my &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/24\/teachers-this-is-not-about-you\/\">Teachers, This is Not About You&#8221;<\/a> post which was also published on Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the truth hurts.&nbsp; Sometimes our stories are hard to tell.&nbsp; Sometimes our realities make us feel like a failure even when things are out of our control.&nbsp; But sometimes our stories can help others get through the same things.<\/p>\n<p>This is our homeschooling truth, the WHOLE truth, and one we&#8217;ve shared with few people before now.&nbsp; But it is time.&nbsp; It is time to acknowledge that these things are not normal and they are NOT okay:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluntmoms.com\/kindergarten-broke-daughter\/\">Kindergarten Broke My Daughter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my first original piece was published on BLUNTmoms.&nbsp; It was a tough piece to write, stemming from some of the comments I received on my &#8220;Homeschool: In My Defense&#8221; which was a response to the many comments I got on my &#8220;Teachers, This is Not About You&#8221; post which was also published on Huffington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357,284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-blogging","category-the-home-school-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9558,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions\/9558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}