{"id":87347,"date":"2024-04-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87347"},"modified":"2024-04-18T00:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T05:09:59","slug":"ripple-effect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87347","title":{"rendered":"Ripple Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I say this fully aware it might be deeply insensitive.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, &#8220;Deeply Insensitive&#8221; was the caption in the high school annual my senior year, so that tracks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway &#8211; people <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/more-young-people-choosing-permanent-192432895.html\">appear to be choosing sterilization<\/a> over wrangling with new abortion laws (or at least the hype about them). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news, sorta?  Fewer abortions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The better news?  It&#8217;s not unreasonable to presume these people are overwhelmingly &#8220;progressives&#8221;.   Hopefully their self-inflicted demographic sunset will happen before they destroy the rest of the country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news:  They got a big headstart on the whole &#8220;destroy the country&#8221; thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say this fully aware it might be deeply insensitive. By the way, &#8220;Deeply Insensitive&#8221; was the caption in the high school annual my senior year, so that tracks. Anyway &#8211; people appear to be choosing sterilization over wrangling with new abortion laws (or at least the hype about them). The good news, sorta? Fewer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87347","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=87347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87348,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87347\/revisions\/87348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}