{"id":5749,"date":"2004-07-22T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T22:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/22\/so-when-are-you-going-to-have-kids.html"},"modified":"2004-07-22T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2004-07-22T22:42:14","slug":"so_when_are_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/22\/so_when_are_you.html","title":{"rendered":"“So, when are you going to have kids?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I can imagine in polite conversation asking if someone has <\/em>kids, and in conversation with good friends if <\/em>they are going to have kids, it’s hard to believe that people still ask couples, “When<\/em> are you going to have kids?<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Fortunately, should someone ask you, now you have some good answers to give them. My favorite:<\/p>\n

“I don’t breed well in captivity.”<\/p>\n

(via Doc’s Blog<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I can imagine in polite conversation asking if someone has kids, and in conversation with good friends if they are going to have kids, it’s hard to believe that…<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21018,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/manners-matter.html","url_meta":{"origin":5749,"position":0},"title":"Manners matter","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-May-11 9:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Les posted on this article on Yahoo (originally in Parents, March 2011) about 25 manners that every kid should learn by age 9.\u00a0 Given that I am sometimes excessively about manners and civility, and that I have a daughter that was recently 9, I thought I'd weigh in. 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