\u201cI don\u2019t want to kill humanity,\u201d says Tom Friedman, \u201cbut now it\u2019s a historical necessity!\u201d<\/p>\n
Amelia takes his hand. She looks at his fingers. She wiggles them even though he is perfectly capable of wiggling them on his own.<\/p>\n
\u201cI should sleep with somebody and get you a baby brother,\u201d she says. \u201cYou\u2019re too isolated!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be alone like this,\u201d she says. \u201cAlways hiding in your room and brooding about how you\u2019re going to inevitably destroy the human race or whatever. It\u2019s not healthy! A boy your age should be hanging out with other kids and running and playing and going on archaeological expeditions and cultivating a spirit baby!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not cultivating a spirit baby!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI worry about your yang energy,\u201d explains Amelia.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t worry about my \u2014 God, Mom!\u201d<\/p>\n
Tom storms off. He goes up to his room. He locks his door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI don\u2019t want to kill humanity,\u201d says Tom Friedman, \u201cbut now it\u2019s a historical necessity!\u201d Amelia takes his hand. She looks at his fingers. She wiggles them even though he is perfectly capable of wiggling them on his own. \u201cI should sleep with somebody and get you a baby brother,\u201d she says. \u201cYou\u2019re too isolated!\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-4","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Toad_Dotted.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6419,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/6419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}