{"id":11,"date":"2007-01-27T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2007-01-27T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T18:40:53","slug":"a-cutting-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"A Cutting Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salon recently ran an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/2007\/01\/09\/pollack_circumcision\/index_np.html\">extremely affecting story<\/a> from a young Jewish\/Protestant couple struggling with the question of whether or not to circumcise their son.  The couple in the article suffers an unbelievable amount of pressure from their families, and reading their story, I was once again struck with gratitude for our extremely supportive families.<\/p>\n<p>Circumcision is a vexed question, though, even for Sam and me, who don&#8217;t have the cultural\/religious dimension to deal with.  On the one hand, if Junior does end up being of the male persuasion, maybe it would be better for him to &#8220;look like Daddy&#8221;.  And there do seem to be some <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?sec=health&#038;res=9905E0D71531F937A25751C1A9609C8B63\">health benefits<\/a> to circumcision.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I find myself swayed by the logic Dan Savage put forward in his (excellent) book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kid-Happened-Boyfriend-Decided-Pregnant\/dp\/0452281768\/sr=1-1\/qid=1169923057\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-5752643-0588668?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">The Kid<\/a><\/em>.  Botched circumcisions are rare, but they happen, and why take the risk of castrating your child in a medically unnecessary procedure?<\/p>\n<p>So, I think we&#8217;re leaning against circumcision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon recently ran an extremely affecting story from a young Jewish\/Protestant couple struggling with the question of whether or not to circumcise their son. The couple in the article suffers an unbelievable amount of pressure from their families, and reading their story, I was once again struck with gratitude for our extremely supportive families. Circumcision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}