{"id":972,"date":"2004-04-26T21:12:42","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T04:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2004\/04\/26\/men-at-work\/"},"modified":"2004-04-26T21:12:42","modified_gmt":"2004-04-27T04:12:42","slug":"men-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2004\/04\/26\/men-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Men at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My children and I made some Almond Crisp cookies last night. They were actually quite tasty. What little of them that were left today I brought to work to give to my co-workers. The interesting this is that when I offered them, each asked me, ?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8?\u00ecDid you make this or did your wife?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u00ac\u00f9. If my wife was in my place, it is highly likely she would not have been asked the same question.<\/p>\n<p>Have we become so wrapped up in having stay-at-home mums that we think fathers are incapable of doing homey things like making cookies? Do we still, in 2004, have this Molly Mormon ideal where the wife\/mother?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00f9as part of her routine?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00c4\u00f9regularly bakes cookies for the sole purpose of treating the guys at work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My children and I made some Almond Crisp cookies last night. They were actually quite tasty. 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