{"id":931,"date":"2007-07-19T09:44:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=931"},"modified":"2007-07-19T09:44:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T15:44:59","slug":"you-may-as-well-know-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/07\/19\/you-may-as-well-know-too\/","title":{"rendered":"You may as well know, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of ours recently described Ava as gregarious.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s accurate.\u00c2\u00a0 She gets it from her mother, who has a well-documented habit of never being the one to end a conversation.<\/p>\n

I tend to be more reserved, so Leah and I make good bookends in that way.\u00c2\u00a0 Leah constantly makes apologies for my brusque behavior in social situations, and I quietly cringe at the personal details of our life that she blithely spills to every Tom, Dick, and Harry on the street.<\/p>\n

Like the fact that we’re “trying” for another child (It’s a bit like “trying” to eat an ice cream cone or ride a roller coaster).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the kind of information that burdens a person once they know it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a big piece of information, and one can reasonably be expected to mention the ongoing effort upon subsequent meetings; “Pregnant yet?”\u00c2\u00a0 Or, “You’d mentioned you were trying for another baby; how’s it coming?”<\/p>\n

I don’t believe that’s information that anyone needs to know, and not because it’s a potential imposition on them, but because it’s intimate.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like telling someone you sleep with a zuchinni<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Does anyone really want <\/em>to know that information about you?\u00c2\u00a0 I can understand a friend wanting to share in your joy about a new child, but slogging through the details of the effort to make <\/em>that new child seems…voyeuristic (says the blog writer).<\/p>\n

But there’s no changing Leah.\u00c2\u00a0 People who are complete strangers to me will continue to walk the streets of this fair city and discuss among themselves the goings on in my bedroom, stopping now and then to speculate, no doubt, on just what’s taking so long.\u00c2\u00a0 It must be just what it’s like to be Paris Hilton.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, in my case, David Beckham (ahem).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of ours recently described Ava as gregarious.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s accurate.\u00c2\u00a0 She gets it from her mother, who has a well-documented habit of never being the one to end a conversation. I tend to be more reserved, so Leah and I make good bookends in that way.\u00c2\u00a0 Leah constantly makes apologies for my brusque behavior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-f1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}