{"id":168,"date":"2004-07-28T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=168"},"modified":"2004-07-28T13:54:05","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T18:54:05","slug":"forgive-me-some-liberties-ms-smartypants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Forgive me some liberties, Ms. Smartypants."},"content":{"rendered":"

Because nobody believes me when I say it, please listen (read) to (a bit of) mimismartypants<\/a>. In particular, pay attention to the third footnote. As a mother (an adoptive mother to boot), a wife and an intellectual, she better phrases my entire argument about why marriage and child-rearing is so often entered into for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

I don’t hate children. I don’t hate couples or marriage. But, I have no respect for people whose entire beings reside in those concepts. Let’s face it: fundamentalism is a poor philosophy in whatever incarnation.<\/p>\n

And sorry about all the punctuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because nobody believes me when I say it, please listen (read) to (a bit of) mimismartypants. In particular, pay attention to the third footnote. As a mother (an adoptive mother to boot), a wife and an intellectual, she better phrases my entire argument about why marriage and child-rearing is so often entered into for all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-2I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":409,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=409","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":0},"title":"10 reasons why gay marriage should be illegal","date":"10\/12\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, this makes sense! 10 reasons why gay marriage should be illegal","rel":"","context":"In "Found Art"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":437,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=437","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":1},"title":"Mawwiage.","date":"1\/11\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"People won't shut up about this. 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