{"id":59,"date":"2014-08-04T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2014\/08\/its-about-time.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:46:55","slug":"its-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2014\/08\/its-about-time.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s About Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>If you\u2019re anything like me, you\u2019re tired of the portrayal of fathers as stupid, inept, angry nincompoops. I don\u2019t know when we went from Bill Cosby to\u2026.most of the men on television today. I hate the message it sends to my sons about how unimportant they\u2019re going to grow up to be. I hate the message it sends to my daughters that fathers for their kids might be more trouble than they\u2019re worth. I hate the message it sends to my husband about how little society appreciates the things he does for our family.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a lot of hate, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to my pleasant surprise of the morning. General Mills is running this ad in Canada right now, and it\u2019s all about the awesomeness of Dad! I just sent them an email thanking them for supporting fathers and families, and practically begged them to show the same kinds of commercials in the US of A. (okay\u2026I did beg them\u2026there was no practically about it.) In fact, peanut butter cheerios sound completely disgusting to me and my children, but I just might buy a box anyway. 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