{"id":42,"date":"2007-07-17T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T00:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2007-07-17T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T00:41:09","slug":"the-empathy-belly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"The Empathy Belly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I really have nothing to say about this except &#8220;Haw!  Empathy Belly!&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empathybelly.org\/home.html\">This thing<\/a> is a strap-on contraption designed to allow non-pregnant people &#8220;to experience over 20 symptoms and effects of pregnancy, including: Weight gain of 30 pounds; Fetal kicking and stroking movements; Shallow breathing and shortness of breath; Increased blood pressure, pulse and body temperature; Bladder pressure and frequency of urination; Low backaches; shift in center of gravity; waddling; Fatigue, irritability, and much, much more!&#8221;  Hilarious!<\/p>\n<p>I ran across the Empathy Belly while reading a really interesting article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=262568\">male pregnancy<\/a>, which hasn&#8217;t happened yet but totally could, someday soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I really have nothing to say about this except &#8220;Haw! Empathy Belly!&#8221; This thing is a strap-on contraption designed to allow non-pregnant people &#8220;to experience over 20 symptoms and effects of pregnancy, including: Weight gain of 30 pounds; Fetal kicking and stroking movements; Shallow breathing and shortness of breath; Increased blood pressure, pulse and [&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\/42"}],"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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}