{"id":1031,"date":"2010-02-18T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/1031"},"modified":"2010-02-18T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:45:08","slug":"getting-scratched-with-colored-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/1031","title":{"rendered":"Getting scratched with colored pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common things that happen to pregnant women (I prefer not to use the term &#8216;symptom&#8217;) is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Round_ligament_of_uterus\">round ligaments that you never knew you had<\/a> will protest as they stretch to cover the increasing distance between their points A and B.<\/p>\n<p>I read that it&#8217;s usually a low groin or thigh ache. For a few months (mos. 3-5) I had a really strange sensation just to the left of my belly button. It felt exactly like a beam of sunburn the size of a quarter was being aimed at my belly. (Or,   the sensation of being tattooed.) It recently went away.<\/p>\n<p>Now, mirrored on the other side, but still way up high next to my belly button (which is way up high, far from where it lived before), I occasionally get the sensation that someone is poking me gently with a colored pencil.<\/p>\n<p>Strange, that I so specifically recognize the feeling as a colored pencil. There must be something about the sensation that matches some childhood memory of the feeling of sharp colored pencils against the skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common things that happen to pregnant women (I prefer not to use the term &#8216;symptom&#8217;) is that the round ligaments that you never knew you had will protest as they stretch to cover the increasing distance between their points A and B. I read that it&#8217;s usually a low groin or thigh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186,177,187],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine","tag-complaining","tag-pregnancy","tag-second-trimester"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","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=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}