{"id":198,"date":"2007-06-27T12:44:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T12:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/macphoenix.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2007-06-27T12:44:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T12:44:53","slug":"seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.macphoenix.com\/_images\/creative\/blog\/msnbcheadline0627.jpg\" alt=\"Goodbye Dad?\"><br \/>\nThe headline? The top story? Really?<br \/>\nK&#8230; show of hands. Who here is eager to go through the pain of childbirth without having that modicum of pleasure we get from sex? Listen, I know there is a small subset of women, who, for whatever reason, can&#8217;t get pregnant from their partner. I know it&#8217;s [big business][1]. But is this really national news? Or, maybe, are they just trying to scare the easily scared by intimating that we won&#8217;t need men anymore?<br \/>\nAnd honestly, speaking as an endangered male, good riddance. Who the hell needs us? Without men, we wouldn&#8217;t have G or GW Bush. No Dick Cheney. No Rush Limbaugh, Bill O&#8217;Reilly, Glenn Beck, or Ann Coulter.<br \/>\nCheap shots aside, the only thing that being able to combine two eggs into a fertilized zygote would do is give hope to a few thousand childless couples. &#8220;Goodbye Dad?&#8221; Ugly and unnecessary. Time for me to link to a new news site.<br \/>\n[1]: http:\/\/www.asrm.org\/Patients\/faqs.html#Q6:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline? The top story? Really? K&#8230; show of hands. Who here is eager to go through the pain of childbirth without having that modicum of pleasure we get from sex? Listen, I know there is a small subset of women, who, for whatever reason, can&#8217;t get pregnant from their partner. I know it&#8217;s [big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-seen-in-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nj3d-3c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}