{"id":38399,"date":"2013-08-07T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/udder-nonsense.html"},"modified":"2013-08-07T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:04:39","slug":"udder-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/udder-nonsense.html","title":{"rendered":"Udder Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I bow to no heterosexual male in my appreciation for female breasts. But if I can control my urges to stare and wolf-whistle\u00a0and become uncontrollably amorous at the sight of a woman breastfeeding her child, then I have little patience for those who don&#39;t think that they (or others) can do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>And if you think it&#39;s somehow &quot;dirty&quot; or &quot;unnatural&quot; or &quot;sinful&quot; or &quot;seductive&quot; &#8212; then you&#39;re the real boob in the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yeah, the whole breastfeeding in public controversy is this silly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-eLGXCUswuQE\/UgKkBQfYPaI\/AAAAAAAAC0k\/3r51jMMezCc\/funny-cow-feeding-baby-comic.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/hZNwyjDjDN5' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bow to no heterosexual male in my appreciation for female breasts. But if I can control my urges to stare and wolf-whistle\u00a0and become uncontrollably amorous at the sight of a woman breastfeeding her child, then I have little patience for those who don&#39;t think that they (or others) can do likewise. And if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/udder-nonsense.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Udder Nonsense&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28070,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/controversy-over-breastfeeding-military-moms.html","url_meta":{"origin":38399,"position":0},"title":"Controversy over breastfeeding military moms","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Jun-12 12:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or, more correctly, military moms who breastfeed in uniform and let themselves be photographed.There's so many threads of controversy here that it's hard to untangle them.On the one hand there's the whole national emotional dis-ease (or perhaps emotional disease) over (EEK!) public breastfeeding. 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