{"id":508,"date":"2002-02-28T22:04:36","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T04:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/fathers\/"},"modified":"2002-02-28T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2002-03-01T04:04:36","slug":"fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading something today that mentioned a quote by Jerry Seinfeld in an episode of his show. I had forgotten about it and it struck me as funny today. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All fathers are intimidating. They&#8217;re intimidating because they are fathers. Once a man has children, for the rest of his life, his attitude is, &#8220;To hell with the world, I can make my own people. I&#8217;ll eat whatever I want. I&#8217;ll wear whatever I want, and I&#8217;ll create whoever I want.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s from the episode with Lawrence Tierney as Elaine&#8217;s father. Most people know Tierney as Joe, the gruff mastermind of the heist and Fast Eddie&#8217;s father in Reservoir Dogs. He died this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading something today that mentioned a quote by Jerry Seinfeld in an episode of his show. I had forgotten about it and it struck me as funny today. All fathers are intimidating. They&#8217;re intimidating because they are fathers. Once a man has children, for the rest of his life, his attitude is, &#8220;To <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/fathers\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3fonJ-fathers","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}