{"id":1056,"date":"2009-06-08T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/06\/in-which-my-daughter-decides-to-shun-the-spotlight.html"},"modified":"2009-06-08T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:52:41","slug":"in-which-my-daughter-decides-to-shun-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/06\/in-which-my-daughter-decides-to-shun-the-spotlight.html","title":{"rendered":"In Which My Daughter Decides To Shun The Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

Let’s do the math here: if my stock-in-trade is stories about and pictures of my kids, and one of those kids decides that she is JUST SO OVER having her picture taken, and we calculate that equation as x (where x = writing fodder for a parent memoirist) – y (where y = willing child) = NO CONTENT FOR MAH BLOG.<\/p>\n

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Yeah. What did I say? UH-OH.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope that Jon & Kate keep acting out <\/a>then, shall we?<\/p>\n

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