{"id":910,"date":"2007-11-16T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/16\/license-to-expand\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:18:50","slug":"license-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"License to Expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No news on the pregnancy front until I have more blood drawn, either tomorrow or Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The pregnancy does explain many things; my sudden narcoleptic tendencies, for one. Yesterday during my lunch break I climbed into the back seat of my car and snoozed soundly for a half hour, then last night while walking by my bed around seven I abruptly swerved to lie down &#8211; and then fell asleep for the rest of the night. This is all after a good eight hours of sleep the previous night, but I guess my body is craving something closer to twelve hours.<\/p>\n<p>My sudden change in taste had been inexplicable as well. I nearly blew Chad&#8217;s mind last week when I said I was going to order the Dutch Baby (glorified oversized baked crepe smothered in powered sugar, lemon, and strawberries) instead of my usual homemade corned beef hash.<\/p>\n<p>And now I understand my rash of stomach-aches that I had been attributing to too much dairy.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago I was still trying to suck my belly in, exclaiming over my thickening waistline. I was making my body image fit my own conception of myself. Today, I am not just me uninterrupted, but an expanding breeder with a changing outline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No news on the pregnancy front until I have more blood drawn, either tomorrow or Monday. The pregnancy does explain many things; my sudden narcoleptic tendencies, for one. Yesterday during my lunch break I climbed into the back seat of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=910\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-womanly","category-pregnancy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}