{"id":997,"date":"2006-08-26T06:33:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T11:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=997"},"modified":"2006-08-26T06:33:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T11:33:57","slug":"day-by-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Day by Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is wandering off into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daybydaycartoon.com\/2006\/08\/25\/\">territory<\/a> I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/archives\/000675.html\">flogged<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/archives\/000419.html\">about<\/a> before.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not in the habit of having conversations with fictional characters, I have to address this one squarely at Jan: If you are pregnant, what is inside you is a human child. Not a waste product. Before you whine about choice, consider that you already MADE the choice, when you engaged in sex. The moment to choose not to have a child is the moment before conception. There are a few infallible methods of contraception, and many nearly infallible ones. (before anyone cracks wise in comments, abstinence, oral sex, and anal sex are infallible methods of contraception, to name but a few)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a restaurant in Chicago called Charlie Trotter&#8217;s. Charlie has travelled the world and worked with the world&#8217;s finest chefs, including, for instance, Gordon Sinclair.  Eating at Trotter&#8217;s is like having sex with a 23 year old Audrey Hepburn.  let&#8217;s say you go there and eat, but for some reason, decide that you don&#8217;t want to pay for the meal (the meal is expensive, no doubt about that!) Is it OK to just go into the bathroom and take a shit? &#8220;Well, the food is still here. Why should I pay for it?&#8221; As any fine restaurantier will tell you, pay up. As any nun will tell you, the cost of that couple minutes ecstacy is a lifetime of service. <em>And <\/em>joy. Pay up, Jan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is wandering off into territory I&#8217;ve flogged about before. While I&#8217;m not in the habit of having conversations with fictional characters, I have to address this one squarely at Jan: If you are pregnant, what is inside you is a human child. Not a waste product. Before you whine about choice, consider that you already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}