{"id":9842,"date":"2016-02-11T08:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T14:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=9842"},"modified":"2016-02-10T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T03:33:21","slug":"book-5-of-52-i-can-barely-take-care-of-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/book-5-of-52-i-can-barely-take-care-of-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 5 (of 52) &#8211; I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9844\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9844\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9844\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9844\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9844\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/i-can-barely-take-care-of-myself.jpg\" alt=\"I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself: Tales From A Happy Life Without Kids - Jen Kirkman\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/i-can-barely-take-care-of-myself.jpg 232w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/i-can-barely-take-care-of-myself-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself: Tales From A Happy Life Without Kids &#8211; Jen Kirkman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After reading comedian Jen Kirkman&#8217;s first memoir, <em>I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself<\/em>, one could get the impression that she doesn&#8217;t want to have kids. \u00a0While this was obviously the hook that got the book sold, 200 pages of it, while she also claims to not\u00a0doth protesting too much, gets a little monotonous. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been a far of Kirkman&#8217;s comedy, and, for the most part, I enjoyed her book. \u00a0But I would be lying if I said that the continual pounding on the kids issue got a bit overwhelming at times. \u00a0And maybe that was her point, as she says she is constantly hounded by people who don&#8217;t understand her decision to not procreate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading comedian Jen Kirkman&#8217;s first memoir, I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself, one could get the impression that she doesn&#8217;t want to have kids. \u00a0While this was obviously the hook that got the book sold, 200 pages of it, while she also claims to not\u00a0doth protesting too much, gets a little monotonous. \u00a0I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6400,6399],"class_list":["post-9842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-i-can-barely-take-care-of-myself","tag-jen-kirkman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9846,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842\/revisions\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}