{"id":2809,"date":"2006-10-15T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:47","slug":"random-acts-of-imperialism-loosely-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"Random Acts of Imperialism (loosely YA oriented)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the big wheeze our way is some spat about an SF city supe having a child with a friend. Of the friends, one is gay, the other lesbian, and they are neither married nor in a relationship (obviously) and the discussion is about what constitutes a family that is strong and solid and appropriate for kids. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/10\/14\/BAGN0LPK511.DTL&#038;hw=pete+wilson&amp;sn=002&#038;sc=846\" target=\"_blank\">One talk radio commentator<\/a> stated quite correctly that children are <i>not <\/i>a social experiment. Kudos to that thought. But as to what else is needful to provide a good home environment and stable life&#8230; ? That is open to discussion yet, I would think.<\/p>\n<p>So, now to my real point: in the world of the glitterati, it&#8217;s Adopt-An-African-Young Adult month (apprently I did <i>not<\/i> receive the memo), and now that certain celebrated personages are jumping on the Bag A Brown Baby Bandwagon (just wait &#8211; as <a href=\"http:\/\/kidslitinformation.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/too-good-to-be-true-indeed.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big A, little A says<\/a>, &#8220;literature&#8221; on the topic will be forthcoming!), <a href=\"http:\/\/the-fire-escape.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/white-madonna-and-african-child.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mitali<\/a> has had a few comments about a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/11\/AR2006101101326.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> article on the effect isolating a child from its home-turf can have upon its development. She raises some deeply &#8220;Hmmm!&#8221; ful points. The word &#8216;apartheid&#8217; is used. Read. Think. Enjoy your weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the big wheeze our way is some spat about an SF city supe having a child with a friend. Of the friends, one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}