{"id":29125,"date":"2021-12-06T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/the-abortion-i-didnt-have-by-novelist-merritt-tierce#id31093"},"modified":"2021-12-06T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:48:00","slug":"one-of-the-best-essays-weve-read-in-a-while-the-abortion-i-didnt-have-by-novelist-merritt-tierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/one-of-the-best-essays-weve-read-in-a-while-the-abortion-i-didnt-have-by-novelist-merritt-tierce\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the best essays we\u2019ve read in a while: \u201cThe Abortion I Didn\u2019t Have\u201d by novelist Merritt Tierce."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&rsquo;t consider abortion or adoption, but the weird thing is I also couldn&rsquo;t consider having a baby. I never decided; I never chose.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/02\/magazine\/abortion-parent-mother-child.html\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The New York Times Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/the-abortion-i-didnt-have-by-novelist-merritt-tierce\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I couldn&rsquo;t consider abortion or adoption, but the weird thing is I also couldn&rsquo;t consider having a baby. I never decided; I never chose.<\/p>\n<p>        &#x21A9;&#xFE0E; The New York Times Magazine<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29126,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125\/revisions\/29126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}