{"id":51,"date":"2025-03-20T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:00:50","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/?page_id=51","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To my home on the internet that is slowly going to let me figure out what this place wants to be. Everyone welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Mel, and I still, even after almost 5 decades of life, never felt like I ever really figured out how to be a &#8216;grownup&#8217;. I mean, sure, I have a job, I have kids, I have dogs, but I pretend to be a grownup every day as I try to life my life my way. And although there are plenty of teens, tweens and young adults that see me as a &#8216;grownup&#8217;, I refuse to get stodgy or old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This place is a hodgepodge of my life &#8211; and I hope anyone who happens upon it finds it helpful, amusing, or just a wholesome corner of the internet. (There aren&#8217;t enough of those.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my home on the internet that is slowly going to let me figure out what this place wants to be. Everyone welcome. My name is Mel, and I still, even after almost 5 decades of life, never felt like I ever really figured out how to be a &#8216;grownup&#8217;. I mean, sure, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}