{"id":364,"date":"2014-12-01T00:49:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T00:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2014-12-02T21:27:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T21:27:33","slug":"please-excuse-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Sorry, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life on our franch is unpredictable. \u00a0So, there are days when we don\u2019t make it out the front gate as planned. \u00a0Other times, we actually do make it beyond our fence, but it\u2019s way later than intended. \u00a0It\u2019s humbling for us as parents because we teach our children the importance of promptness and how changing plans last minute is disrespectful of others. \u00a0We also lecture our children to accept responsibility and offer simple apologies for doing wrong without giving excuses. \u00a0We discourage \u201cI\u2019m sorry, <em>but<\/em>\u2026\u201d in our home. \u00a0Yet, my husband and I are often\u00a0apologizing and giving excuses for being tardy and changing plans after something unexpected happens on the franch. \u00a0One day, dinner wasn\u2019t ready for out-of-town guests because we spent the entire afternoon walking our colicky horse in circles. \u00a0Our daughter missed basketball practice when\u00a0our cow was noticeably in labor (and we didn&#8217;t want to miss the birth!). \u00a0We were well over an hour late meeting friends at the town plaza for the Christmas event because we first needed to chase and catch all 15 of our chickens (who hadn\u2019t yet gone in the coop on their own for the night). \u00a0I missed a school meeting because I was hauling a calf we sold to its new home. \u00a0Then, there\u2019s the one time the children and I missed church while my husband was deployed because our sick dog, who was happy to see me, wagged his diarrhea-soaked tail and I didn\u2019t get out of the way in time. \u00a0Once the children were late for school because the cows were found grazing on the\u00a0wrong side of the fence during morning chores. \u00a0Unfortunately, we had to cancel a weekend getaway reservation when we were off on due dates and our goat unexpectedly gave birth to twins the night before. \u00a0Sometimes, these excuses elicit a laugh from the offended party having never heard anything\u00a0quite like it. \u00a0Usually, there are just stares of disbelief in response to our excuses. \u00a0Occasionally, my integrity is questioned with a suspicious response similar to,\u00a0\u201cAnd, did your dog eat\u00a0your homework too?&#8221; \u00a0Well, I know I\u2019m not practicing what I preach to my children with all these examples of excuses for being late or missing events. \u00a0I\u2019m really sorry, but we\u00a0live on a franch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life on our franch is unpredictable. \u00a0So, there are days when we don\u2019t make it out the front gate as planned. \u00a0Other times, we actually do make it beyond our fence, but it\u2019s way later than intended. \u00a0It\u2019s humbling for us as parents because we teach our children the importance of promptness and how changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}