So this morning I got my daily Google Alert for Mennonite<\/i>. And amid all the less-than-interesting-to-me stuff, this:<\/p>\n
Celebrate with Mennonite family, then have a real party at girlfriend’s<\/a> \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I’m single, aged 26. Christmas is coming and I hate being with my Mennonite family because they won’t let me drink or smoke or have any fun. I have never broken tradition by not going before, but I want to go to my girlfriend’s place in Regina this year where they party and celebrate the way Christmas should be. How do I get out of the home thing? — Desperate Mennonite Grinch, Winnipeg<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Wait a minute. He’s 26 and still whining about “they won’t let me…have any fun”?!<\/p>\n At 26, what’s he doing at home yet if he hates it there?<\/p>\n Bah hum bug.<\/p>\n Note to all (Mennonite and other) twenty-six-year-old guys still living at home: This is your opportunity to bless your parents as well as your siblings. Try that instead of focusing on yourself and on having fun. Don’t make your family miserable with your bad attitudes and hateful spirit. Don’t be such a grinch. You’ll likely be much happier for it.<\/p>\n Oh, and as far as I know, a guy at the ripe old age of 26 should be able to fend for himself.<\/p>\n For that kindly advice, just call me Uncle Mark. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n And, please, don’t call me Mr. Lonelyhearts. I have only one. And it’s not particularly lonely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So this morning I got my daily Google Alert for Mennonite. And amid all the less-than-interesting-to-me stuff, this: Celebrate with Mennonite family, then have a real party at girlfriend’s \ud83d\ude2f DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I’m single, aged 26. Christmas is coming and I hate being with my Mennonite family because they won’t let me drink or … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[389,395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-dumb-and-such"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}