{"id":777,"date":"2007-02-16T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2007-02-16T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T21:29:00","slug":"i-could-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/i-could-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"I could cry&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got an e-mail from the woman I thought was &#8220;the one&#8221;, the <a href=\"http:\/\/momm-eh.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/we-seem-to-have-few-running-themes.html\">ideal but expensive child care provider.<br \/><\/a><br \/>She changed her mind. She doesn&#8217;t want to reduce her rates from $40\/day per boy. I simply can&#8217;t afford that kind of increase. Not only is it $120 to $150 more PER WEEK than I&#8217;m currently paying, but it&#8217;s $60 to $75 more per week than it would cost for a licensed home care or institutional daycare spot. That&#8217;s a hell of a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t stand that it&#8217;s become about the money, but I just don&#8217;t think I can swing it. If she had been okay with $70\/day, we could have barely made it, but an extra $50\/week out of my price range is a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Crap, I just don&#8217;t know anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got an e-mail from the woman I thought was &#8220;the one&#8221;, the ideal but expensive child care provider.She changed her mind. She doesn&#8217;t want to reduce her rates from $40\/day per boy. I simply can&#8217;t afford that kind of increase. Not only is it $120 to $150 more PER WEEK than I&#8217;m currently paying, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/i-could-cry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I could cry&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working-and-mothering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}