{"id":536,"date":"2003-04-25T03:16:47","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T22:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/536"},"modified":"2003-04-25T03:16:47","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T22:16:47","slug":"breastfeeding-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/536","title":{"rendered":"Breastfeeding activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This boils my blood.<\/p>\n<p>One woman was considered a terrorist for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montreal\/montrealgazette\/story.asp?id=51AA6AB6-034B-4FE0-911C-04871E6B1EC5\">breastfeeding her 4 month son on an airplane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dallasobserver.com\/issues\/2003-04-17\/feature2.html\/print.html\">This woman was brought up on charges of child pornography and had her kids taken away from her<\/a> after she dropped a roll of film off at an Eckerd&#8217;s for processing.  One of the photos was of her 18 month old nursing.<\/p>\n<p><b>What in the hell is wrong with people!?<\/b>  Holy shit, God gave women breasts in order to feed their children.  Mary and Jesus did it.  WWJD?  He&#8217;d breastfeed, that&#8217;s what!  Why do we have to put all this stupid-ass moral weight on exposing a boob, a specialized sweat gland, whose whole purpose is to provide nourishment to a baby.  It&#8217;s not put there for men, nope, sorry guys.  Go obsess about something else.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so freaking pissed off about these stories.  Even though C. weaned herself early, my La Leche League leader told me I&#8217;m always welcome there.  I&#8217;m going to re-up my membership with them right now, and I suggest to any other person who thinks that women should be able to feed their kids what God (or nature or whatever you believe in) provides, I highly encourage you to sign up as well.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalecheleague.org\">La Leche League<\/a> is the main page, the page for membership is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalecheleague.org\/membership.html\">here<\/a>, and if you would just like to make a donation, do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalecheleague.org\/donor.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This boils my blood. One woman was considered a terrorist for breastfeeding her 4 month son on an airplane. This woman was brought up on charges of child pornography and had her kids taken away from her after she dropped a roll of film off at an Eckerd&#8217;s for processing. One of the photos was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}