{"id":155388,"date":"2015-05-09T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T19:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/09\/pardonmewhileipanic-melannen-a-lot-of-people\/"},"modified":"2015-05-09T19:29:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T19:29:16","slug":"pardonmewhileipanic-melannen-a-lot-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/09\/pardonmewhileipanic-melannen-a-lot-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pardonmewhileipanic.tumblr.com\/post\/114580341950\/melannen-a-lot-of-people-conceptualize-their\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">pardonmewhileipanic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melannen.tumblr.com\/post\/110545239002\/a-lot-of-people-conceptualize-their-period-as\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">melannen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A lot of people conceptualize their period as their uterus having a tantrum about there being no baby. I used to do that, too.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2011\/12\/21\/why-do-women-menstruate\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article about why we menstruate<\/a> and I realized that\u2019s not what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s actually my uterus saying, \u201cLook, you don\u2019t want a baby this month. I certainly don\u2019t want a damn baby this month. We\u2019re going to make damn sure there\u2019s no baby this month even if I have to nuke the site from orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I think that\u2019s beautiful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uterus:<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/d756be74ef153b0c7ca3db4e5e4bcaee\/tumblr_inline_nlrte5ETbk1qfbr3h.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pardonmewhileipanic: melannen: A lot of people conceptualize their period as their uterus having a tantrum about there being no baby. I used to do that, too. Then I found this article about why we menstruate and I realized that\u2019s not what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s actually my uterus saying, \u201cLook, you don\u2019t want a baby this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/09\/pardonmewhileipanic-melannen-a-lot-of-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17539,185,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}