{"id":266,"date":"2021-11-23T16:55:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2021-11-23T16:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:55:45","slug":"way-of-the-househusband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Way of the Househusband"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81NL8NtfVcL.jpg\" alt=\"The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 2 (2): Oono, Kousuke: 9781974710447:  Amazon.com: Books\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do I love this anime? Because it pokes fun at the role of househusband while also taking it seriously. They get so much mileage out of one joke (that being a yakuza and being a househusband have a lot in common), but it&#8217;s a funny joke and a creative setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But mostly I love it because of all the little details I recognize as true from my own life. I loved being a stay-at-home dad, and all the little ways of making the chores more fun (or just get done) ring very true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found it truly touching in places. It demonstrates a form of masculinity that is not toxic and incorporates traditional gender expression in nontraditional ways. Tatsu is serious, but deeply playful. Of course, it doesn&#8217;t linger on or ask too many questions about his violent past; the tone is too light for that. But as an in-the-present, everyday fella, you could do a lot worse for a sensei than Tatsu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I love this anime? Because it pokes fun at the role of househusband while also taking it seriously. They get so much mileage out of one joke (that being a yakuza and being a househusband have a lot in common), but it&#8217;s a funny joke and a creative setup. But mostly I love &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/?p=266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Way of the Househusband&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lainschell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}