{"id":1005,"date":"2009-11-18T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T23:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2009-11-18T20:46:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T02:46:55","slug":"unwarned-belly-patting-dont-do-it-unless-its-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/1005","title":{"rendered":"Unwarned belly patting: don&#8217;t do it (unless its me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m almost 14 weeks pregnant,   and I&#8217;ve only really been showing for the past two. Already,   there have been three accounts of people patting or rubbing my abdomen without asking. From what I hear, this is common. Strangers on the train will put their hands on my expanded middle.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this is not a big deal. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t have personal space, it&#8217;s that my bubble includes everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>For others, I can imagine this would be startling at the very least, and bring on atavistic rage at the most.<\/p>\n<p>I do find this incredibly interesting, from a sociological perspective. Our culture seems to celebrate pregnant women, which I assume is a celebration that we haven&#8217;t become inept at procreation. Pregnancy is also a temporary state, so unless you troll maternity wards, you don&#8217;t tend to have a steady stream of pregnant women in your life. It&#8217;s powerful that growing a baby is something gives everyone else the go-ahead to cross the don&#8217;t-touch-strangers-in-the-midsection boundary.<\/p>\n<p>Just so you know, I&#8217;m totally willing to let anyone touch my belly. I wonder if that will change as the baby (and I) get larger, and I start to get that mama animal, primal thing. I&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m almost 14 weeks pregnant, and I&#8217;ve only really been showing for the past two. Already, there have been three accounts of people patting or rubbing my abdomen without asking. From what I hear, this is common. Strangers on the train will put their hands on my expanded middle. For me, this is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[178,177],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zomg-babies","tag-atavistic-rage","tag-pregnancy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}