{"id":2768,"date":"2004-08-25T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/25\/i-had-an-rtion\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T08:07:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:07:42","slug":"i-had-an-rtion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/25\/i-had-an-rtion\/","title":{"rendered":"I had an *rtion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10351,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.inc.com\\\/magazine\\\/20040901\\\/difranco.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.inc.com\\\/magazine\\\/20040901\\\/difranco.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>More with me finding humor in places I really probably shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/images\/difranco.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"difranco\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/images\/difranco-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"121\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/20040901\/difranco.html\" title=\"Fresh Inc.: T-Shirt Controversy\">bunch of people got offended<\/a> by Ani DiFranco <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/20040901\/difranco.html\" title=\"Inc.: Don't Call Her an Entrepreneur\">appearing in Inc.\u00a0magazine<\/a> &#8220;wearing a t-shirt that appears to read, &#8216;I had an abortion.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think everyone is just jumping to conclusions. The shirt is partially obscured, and while it&#8217;s certainly possible that &#8216;abortion&#8217; is the word in question, that&#8217;s certainly not the only possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Now, assuming the shirt is grammatically correct, the word in question does need to begin with a vowel, as &#8220;an&#8221; is used immediately beforehand. Now, I have no idea what Ani&#8217;s sexual orientation is, but she could simply be using the shirt to brag about having a sex life, as whether it be penile, digital, or a strap-on, &#8220;insertion&#8221; is a perfectly good possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Or, perhaps she recently expounded upon her stance on one point or another, and had an &#8220;assertion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If she&#8217;d just gotten back from the gym, she might have had an &#8220;exertion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If we drop the assumption that the shirt used the English language correctly, more possibilities appear. For instance, if someone had misquoted her in a previous article, she might be wearing the shirt to subtly complain about having had a &#8220;distortion&#8221; in a prior interview.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m finding it difficult to figure out how to work &#8220;proportion&#8221; into our scenario, it&#8217;s another option. Perhaps a little dadaist weirdness is all this is.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it seems to be a fair amount of controversy over a shirt when we can&#8217;t even be entirely sure what the message on the shirt says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More with me finding humor in places I really probably shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}