{"id":8572,"date":"2011-04-01T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T12:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8572"},"modified":"2011-04-01T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T12:38:03","slug":"chinese-tiger-mom-meets-irish-setter-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/chinese-tiger-mom-meets-irish-setter-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Tiger Mom meets Irish Setter Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/irish-setter-dad_555534.html?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/a> on Amy Chua&#8217;s recent book:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s all this bother about Chinese Tiger Moms? Amy Chua, author of <em>Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother<\/em>, has America\u2019s female parents in a swivet. You\u2019d have to take Sarah Palin to a NOW convention to see so many ladies mad at a fellow woman. Practically a third of the <em>Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s April issue is taken up with Caitlin Flanagan and Sandra Tsing Loh giving Amy Chua the dickens in terms strong enough for Hillary Clinton\u2019s private thoughts on Monica Lewinsky. My wife put it more succinctly: \u201cThis person is factory farming her kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I gather Ms. Chua is a total bitch with her children, making them finish homework before it\u2019s assigned, practice violin and piano 25 hours a day, maintain a grade point average higher than Obama budget numbers, and forbidding them from doing anything they might enjoy, such as exhale.<\/p>\n<p>But being a male parent with a typical dad-like involvement in my children\u2019s lives &mdash; \u200bI know all of their names\u200b &mdash; \u200bI thought <em>Battle Hymn<\/em> was great. That is, I thought it made me look great. Not that I read the dreadful book, but I did buy each of my children a copy and inscribed it, \u201cSo you think you\u2019ve got it bad?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.J. O&#8217;Rourke on Amy Chua&#8217;s recent book: What\u2019s all this bother about Chinese Tiger Moms? Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has America\u2019s female parents in a swivet. You\u2019d have to take Sarah Palin to a NOW convention to see so many ladies mad at a fellow woman. Practically a third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,28],"tags":[374,375],"class_list":["post-8572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-media","tag-children","tag-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}