{"id":647,"date":"2006-10-26T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2006-10-26T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T11:45:00","slug":"pregnant-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/pregnant-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but I got really, really tired of seeing that picture of a pregnant Brittney Spears wearing a T-shirt that says, “I’ve got the golden ticket” with an arrow pointing to her belly. Then again, maybe I’m just bitter because I couldn’t pull that t-shirt over my leg on my skinniest day.<\/p>\n

It got me thinking, though. If I were a maternity-wear designer, here’s what I would print on my fabulous, brightly-coloured and roomy-without-being-tentlike pregnancy t-shirts:<\/p>\n

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You’d be cranky too, if you spent all day and night
building ears and eyes and elbows. <\/div>\n
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If pregnancy were a book
they would cut the last two chapters.
(Nora Ephron)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Life is tough enough without having someone
kick you from the inside.
(Rita Rudner)<\/span><\/div>\n
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By far the most common craving of pregnant women
is not to be pregnant.
(Phyllis Diller)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Hey, are you going to eat that?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
You can play along, too. Or, how about this one? Not too long ago Marla, the Oracle of the Arcane Corners of the Interweb<\/a>, sent me this link to the collective names <\/a>of just about every animal on the planet. Did you know, for example, that a group of magpies is called a tiding? Or that a group of geese in flight is called a skein? And I’ve always loved the idea of an ‘unkindness’ of ravens.<\/div>\n
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It begs the question: what do you call a group of bloggers?<\/div>\n
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I don’t know about you, but I got really, really tired of seeing that picture of a pregnant Brittney Spears wearing a T-shirt that says, “I’ve got the golden ticket” with an arrow pointing to her belly. Then again, maybe I’m just bitter because I couldn’t pull that t-shirt over my leg on my skinniest … Continue reading “Pregnant thoughts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}