{"id":914,"date":"2011-02-11T11:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wp\/?p=914"},"modified":"2011-02-11T11:24:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T11:24:21","slug":"to-procreate-or-not-to-procreate-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/to-procreate-or-not-to-procreate-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To procreate or not to procreate? That is the question."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought I would have children (at age 28 to be precise!), but I sometimes wonder if I should rather go through life without having kids. I always thought being a mother was my _purpose_ in life. I&#8217;m not going to be famous, I&#8217;m not going to change the world, I&#8217;m just another little fish swimming in this vast ocean we call life. So is it so important that I bring more little fish into the already overcrowded world? Sure I could raise a future nobel peace prize winner, but the chances are slim.<\/p>\n<p>But if I don&#8217;t procreate, THEN what will I do with my life?<\/p>\n<p>Just one of the random thoughts that goes through my mind on any given day&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought I would have children (at age 28 to be precise!), but I sometimes wonder if I should rather go through life without having kids. I always thought being a mother was my _purpose_ in life. I&#8217;m not going to be famous, I&#8217;m not going to change the world, I&#8217;m just another little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[70,166],"tags":[179,181,180,119],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-ljxp","tag-children","tag-deepthought","tag-future","tag-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RawE-eK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violetsteel.com\/wordpress15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}