{"id":4600,"date":"2012-06-20T18:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2012-06-20T18:07:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:07:45","slug":"maggie-koerth-baker-a-writers-writer-on-the-worlds-shittiest-secret-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/maggie-koerth-baker-a-writers-writer-on-the-worlds-shittiest-secret-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Koerth Baker, A writer&#8217;s writer on &#8220;The World&#8217;s Shittiest Secret Society&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Koerth Baker, whom I am so very happy to know and count as a friend and sort of neighbor, has written an essay that is clearly one of the the most important and powerful essays regarding the topics of miscarriage abortion that you will ever read. <\/p>\n<p>Someone said the other day somewhere out there in the intertubual space, quoting someone, that &#8220;You know you&#8217;re a writer when you suffer a painful injury and think, &#8216;great, now I can write about pain from personal experience.'&#8221;  At this very moment, the ink is still wet on Maggie&#8217;s essay which is meant to do exactly that, to discuss miscarriage and abortion and many of the things that go along with these things from a very personal perspective.   <\/p>\n<p>Holy crap, Maggie. I want to see you soon and give you a hug or something.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody, give yourself a few minutes and <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/06\/20\/the-only-good-abortion-is-my-a.html\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Koerth Baker, whom I am so very happy to know and count as a friend and sort of neighbor, has written an essay that is clearly one of the the most important and powerful essays regarding the topics of miscarriage abortion that you will ever read. Someone said the other day somewhere out there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/maggie-koerth-baker-a-writers-writer-on-the-worlds-shittiest-secret-society\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maggie Koerth Baker, A writer&#8217;s writer on &#8220;The World&#8217;s Shittiest Secret Society&#8221;<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1cc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}