{"id":2677,"date":"2024-07-29T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2024-07-29T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:11:21","slug":"grumpy-old-childless-cat-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2677","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy Old Childless Cat Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am going to keep this short and sweet: the notion that I don&#8217;t have a stake in the future because I did not give birth is laughable. Also, I am not miserable. I certainly do not want others to be miserable. What I really want is to be left alone to make personal, private decisions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could go on but, thankfully, Moira Donegan from The Guardian said it perfectly: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/jul\/29\/the-republican-partys-obsession-with-families-has-taken-a-fanatical-turn\">we are looking directly into the face of patriarchy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, I am actually feeling more optimistic than I have for some time. I have made creativity a priority this summer so spend less time doom scrolling and more time creating. I turned some of my gel prints into zines, and then was inspired by a variety of Instagram accounts to add interactivity. Here&#8217;s what I created:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DVM6dWR1bbE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to keep this short and sweet: the notion that I don&#8217;t have a stake in the future because I did not give birth is laughable. Also, I am not miserable. I certainly do not want others to be miserable. What I really want is to be left alone to make personal, private &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grumpy Old Childless Cat Lady<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,58,31],"tags":[714,382,712],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-politics","category-thinking-out-loud","tag-art","tag-creativity","tag-feminism"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-Hb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}