{"id":1256,"date":"2008-03-23T12:53:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T16:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/2008\/03\/23\/lizzie-borden-insight\/"},"modified":"2008-03-23T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T16:53:06","slug":"lizzie-borden-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/lizzie-borden-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzie Borden Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent LiveJournal entry by Jennifer Simon<\/a> made me think that maybe she had some insight into Lizzie’s state of mind in 1892. Of course, it wouldn’t have been a hassle over computers and downloading, but the proximity issues combined with insecurities and communication problems would certainly add to the violent mix.<\/p>\n

The entry is not only well written, but an eloquent psychological analysis of what it must be like to be 30 and living at home. <\/p>\n

Lizzie Borden took an ax. . . . .
\nWhen I was growing up Lizzie Borden was my hero. She was bold, she was honest, and she did very little to cover up what she did. I can just imagine her with the police: “My mother? Oh no, she’s not my mother. She’s my step mother. Murdered you say? With an ax? Well that’s something, isn’t it.”<\/p>\n

The more I think about her, the more it feels like I can relate. She was in her thirties (which I will be, eventually) and still living with her parents (which I am, currently). And her alibi? She wasn’t killing her parents, she was in the shed binging on pears! Personally I wouldn’t eat in our shed, and I don’t binge on fruit (except rasins). Lizzie and I weren’t separated at birth but I think we would have been friends.<\/p>\n

I’m not actually going to hurt my parents. My mom just made me extrememly angry this morning. Apparently, I download too much and that makes our internet slow. I have not done anything different. I have not been downloading more lately. I have not done anything. Yet I pretty much daily face her accusations and lectures about how I’m being inconsiderate (wtf? Get a freaking hobby mom!). She has no idea how to use the computer. Seriously! A few weeks ago I bought her a set of card games and she had to ask me how to close the program. Umm . . . . try the x button at the top right? And yet she feels justified in telling me that my usage is too much. And she decided that *we* agreed that I would never download anything ever again. HELL NO. I never agreed to that. She doesn’t pay any attention to reality. She just doesn’t. <\/p>\n

I’m so mad at her. She just isn’t all there (and she’s getting worse with age). It’s so frustrating, I give up. Forget it! I’m just not going to talk to her anymore. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about and there’s no convincing her otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent LiveJournal entry by Jennifer Simon made me think that maybe she had some insight into Lizzie’s state of mind in 1892. Of course, it wouldn’t have been a hassle over computers and downloading, but the proximity issues combined with insecurities and communication problems would certainly add to the violent mix. The entry is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-degrees-of-separation","category-on-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}