{"id":41,"date":"2007-05-29T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/29\/worst-ways-to-announce-your-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2007-05-29T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T16:18:02","slug":"worst-ways-to-announce-your-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/29\/worst-ways-to-announce-your-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to (not) announce your pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\">WikiHow<\/a> a few minutes ago trying to find out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Disable-Windows-Login-Screensaver\">how to disable the Windows XP login screensaver<\/a>, when I came across this &#8216;featured&#8217; article:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Announce-Your-Pregnancy\">How to Announce Your Pregnancy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the advice in the article made sense, but a lot of them are just ridiculous. Such as these ones:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Take a shower together. Write on your belly in washable marker, &#8220;Baby On Board&#8221; and allow your partner to get in the shower first.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah.. I think the poor guy would fall and break his head.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Wait for a holiday and literally &#8220;give&#8221; your partner the news. Buy a t-shirt with DADDY written on it, a baby-related keychain, a baby book, as well as a few baby items, and put them in a gift bag. Cover with tissue paper and then have him open it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Umm&#8230; yeah.  No comment on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing WikiHow a few minutes ago trying to find out how to disable the Windows XP login screensaver, when I came across this &#8216;featured&#8217; article: How to Announce Your Pregnancy Some of the advice in the article made sense, but a lot of them are just ridiculous. Such as these ones: &#8220;Take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}