{"id":1879,"date":"2010-04-21T08:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:32:44","slug":"my-metamorphisis-tuesday-april-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/my-metamorphisis-tuesday-april-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"My Metamorphisis – Tuesday April 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWhen I first started to look pregnant I joked that I was becoming Gregor the Beetle from Kafka\u2019s Metamorphosis. I felt awkward and had a weird appetite and didn\u2019t want to go out in public. Then I stopped making the joke because my brother said no one reads Kafka. I don’t know if that’s true- I had it assigned in high school- but nothing’s worse than having to explain a literary joke and look like a nerd\/snob so… <\/p>\n

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Then I realized what\u2019s really happening: I\u2019m turning into a giant baby. I\u2019ve got chubby arms and legs and have to pee and poo at inconvenient times. I\u2019m hungry every two hours. I want to sleep or be held all the time. I can\u2019t get out of bed on my own. I cry a lot. I fluctuate between being fussy and giggly. <\/p>\n

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I think this is nature\u2019s way of building empathy in me for the creature I\u2019m about to be in charge of. When this little baby comes out of my giant baby body I think I\u2019ll take one look at him and say, \u201cI know what you\u2019re going through my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first started to look pregnant I joked that I was becoming Gregor the Beetle from Kafka\u2019s Metamorphosis. I felt awkward and had a weird appetite and didn\u2019t want to go out in public. Then I stopped making the joke because my brother said no one reads Kafka. I don’t know if that’s true- … Continue reading “My Metamorphisis – Tuesday April 20th”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}