{"id":2910,"date":"2005-10-27T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T14:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/10\/27\/no-lovin-in-china\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:43:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:43:44","slug":"no-lovin-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/no-lovin-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"No lovin&#8217; in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long heard stories of how Chinese families, with a government-imposed limit to how many children they are allowed to bear, would kill their newborn daughters in hopes of having another shot and bearing a son, who could then continue the family name. Now, I can&#8217;t be sure of whether or not that is true, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,68861,00.html\" rel=\"external\">this&nbsp;report&nbsp;in&nbsp;Wired&nbsp;Magazine<\/a> has China&#8217;s gender ratio all askew, with 15 million more males than females between the ages of 5 and 20.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine having to compete against 14,999,999 other guys to get that last remaining girl?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long heard stories of how Chinese families, with a government-imposed limit to how many children they are allowed to bear, would kill their newborn daughters in hopes of having another shot and bearing a son, who could then continue the family name. Now, I can&#8217;t be sure of whether or not that is true, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}