{"id":1743,"date":"2006-07-30T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2006-07-30T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T14:14:00","slug":"my-offspring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/my-offspring","title":{"rendered":"my offspring.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/pics\/nathan\/Natalie-Scan-Photo-2006.jpg<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.sheer.us\/pics\/nathan\/Natalie-Scan-Photo-2006-2.jpg<\/p>\n<p>Since I no longer believe it is ethical to create life without that life&#8217;s permission (and it&#8217;s basically impossible, as far as I can tell, to get permission prior to the creation) I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about N. &#8211; obviously I don&#8217;t want him\/her to stop existing (unless he\/she really, really chooses to) but I feel very guilty at this point for having created him\/her &#8211; I guess when worrying about teenage pregnancy and whatnot I worried about the more pragmatic matters like how I would pay for half a kid and what the girl&#8217;s parents would do to me, but not the more existential things like how life is painful and how there are horrible things like cancer and natural disasters and how at the very best you&#8217;re going to get to die of old age with system after system going offline in incredibly painful ways and how no one should be bringing more people into this world to suffer thusly..<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, I feel guilty about N. <\/p>\n<p>Bleh.<\/p>\n<p>S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/pics\/nathan\/Natalie-Scan-Photo-2006.jpg http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/pics\/nathan\/Natalie-Scan-Photo-2006-2.jpg Since I no longer believe it is ethical to create life without that life&#8217;s permission (and it&#8217;s basically impossible, as far as I can tell, to get permission prior to the creation) I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about N. &#8211; obviously I don&#8217;t want him\/her to stop existing (unless he\/she really, really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}