{"id":2015,"date":"2010-10-11T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2011-10-02T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T19:26:50","slug":"2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nParental leave is called <i>f\u00f6r\u00e4ldraledighet<\/i> in Swedish. The first part, <i>f\u00f6r\u00e4lder<\/i>, means <i>parent<\/i>. The second, <i>ledighet<\/i>, generally means <i>leisure<\/i> or <i>holiday<\/i>. It has overtones of freedom, of time off. Of course reality is nothing like that. Eric likes to refer to it as &ldquo;parental service&rdquo; instead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI don&rsquo;t know where the time is going, but it definitely feels like two children take more than twice the time as one. There is more to be done, and less time to do it. I seem to recall a certain amount of leisure when I was at home with Ingrid as a baby. Now there are nursery hours to keep, errands to run, and busy evenings trying to juggle the needs of two children at the same time. I am glad that Ingrid is as old as she is, and as sensible as she is &ndash; this would be a lot harder otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parental leave is called f\u00f6r\u00e4ldraledighet in Swedish. The first part, f\u00f6r\u00e4lder, means parent. The second, ledighet, generally means leisure or holiday. It has overtones of freedom, of time off. Of course reality is nothing like that. Eric likes to refer to it as &ldquo;parental service&rdquo; instead. I don&rsquo;t know where the time is going, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[759,16],"tags":[659,772],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_with_kids","category-parenting","tag-parental_leave","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}