{"id":53870,"date":"2015-06-19T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53870"},"modified":"2015-06-17T23:11:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T04:11:33","slug":"rights-schmights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53870","title":{"rendered":"Rights, Schmights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails as part of a theme he&#8217;s had for a couple days:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My neighbor just renewed her Permit to Reproduce.\u00a0 She\u2019s good to go for another five years.<\/p>\n<p>You didn\u2019t know about that?\u00a0 Oh yes, it turns out that Deciding to Have a Child is not a Right protected by the Constitution, it\u2019s a Privilege given by the government to those who qualify.\u00a0 Applicants must be over 21 years of age, reside in this country legally, take a class at personal expense, demonstrate proper technique before a certified evaluator, show photo ID and submit an application with payment of fees to the County, authorize release of medical data and criminal history . . . it\u2019s fairly involved, requires planning ahead and costs a bit of money.\u00a0 But the permit is necessary to ensure no child is born unwanted, or born into poverty.\u00a0 It\u2019s a common sense birth-control requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, did I say Reproduce?\u00a0 I meant Carry.\u00a0 Sorry, my bad.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone&#8217;s gotta make sure we&#8217;re using our rights\u00a0<em>correctly<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails as part of a theme he&#8217;s had for a couple days: My neighbor just renewed her Permit to Reproduce.\u00a0 She\u2019s good to go for another five years. You didn\u2019t know about that?\u00a0 Oh yes, it turns out that Deciding to Have a Child is not a Right protected by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53871,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53870\/revisions\/53871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}