{"id":66,"date":"2007-05-16T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=66"},"modified":"2011-08-09T01:10:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T06:10:40","slug":"i-want-to-make-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"I want to have babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by Rainbow Foods earlier this afternoon and there&#8217;s one cool thing about their parking lot: the space that&#8217;s closest to the entry has a sign which says &#8220;Mother To Be Parking.&#8221;  Yes, that&#8217;s right, even closer than the handicapped parking spaces.  (&#8220;Screw you and your wheelchair!  I had sex three months ago!&#8221;)  Then again, you could cheat the system: &#8220;mother to be&#8221; could include an 8-year-old who wants to have kids when she grows up.  I&#8217;d be impressed if she could work the pedals and park the vehicle properly, in which case she may have earned the right to use the space, but that&#8217;s beside the point.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that as I was leaving the grocery store, I walked past the space and saw an SUV there with a personalized license plate.  A plate that read <b>&#8220;ROGER L&#8221;<\/b>.  You know, I got a B in Biology and I don&#8217;t remember the textbook ever saying that dudes could bear offspring.  The only thing I can think of is that the vehicle belonged to a handicapped person who wanted to stick it to the pregnant women.  (&#8220;Screw you and your uterus!  I haven&#8217;t been able to have sex in three years!&#8221;)  Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t take a chance like that.  If a pregnant woman ever gets a serious hankering for Cheetos and there&#8217;s a guy&#8217;s SUV parked in the &#8220;Mother To Be&#8221; space&#8230; the vehicle could quickly end up as handicapped as the driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by Rainbow Foods earlier this afternoon and there&#8217;s one cool thing about their parking lot: the space that&#8217;s closest to the entry has a sign which says &#8220;Mother To Be Parking.&#8221; Yes, that&#8217;s right, even closer than the handicapped parking spaces. (&#8220;Screw you and your wheelchair! I had sex three months ago!&#8221;) Then &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I want to have babies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[450],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-parking-space"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1muBs-14","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}