{"id":391621,"date":"2019-01-04T22:24:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T21:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/loving-me-was-easier-a-parable-for-the-perplexed\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T22:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T21:24:34","slug":"loving-me-was-easier-a-parable-for-the-perplexed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/loving-me-was-easier-a-parable-for-the-perplexed\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Me Was Easier: A Parable for the Perplexed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A few years ago I married myself, but we\u2019ve reconsidered and have filed for divorce.\u00a0 It\u2019s no one\u2019s fault, really, but we are emotionally devastated nevertheless. At least we have no children.\u00a0 Sologamy didn\u2019t seem to suit us.\u00a0 We had acted impetuously.\u00a0 I had gotten the idea after hearing a NPR radio report about a woman who fell in love with herself and said that after she tied the knot she had never been happier.<\/p>\n<p>The world was getting me down at the time with all the political news about the Russians coming and insinuating themselves between me and you and all good Americans who had just wanted to elect Hilary Clinton and be happy.\u00a0 And as I was thinking about this happy married couple \u2013 the woman and herself, not Bill and Hillary \u2013 I chanced upon a <em>New York Times<\/em> article in a coffee shop that convinced me to take the plunge.\u00a0 It was a \u00a0weird article that jumped out at me about transracialism and transgenderism and this big debate about these big words and a big philosopher who claims if you can self-identify as a different sex, or is it gender \u2013 I\u00a0 can never get them straight \u2013 you should also be able to self-identify as a different race.\u00a0 It was a long article with a lot of people arguing back and forth about self-identifying as this and that and what names to call themselves and I couldn\u2019t concentrate on it all but I got the gist of the professor\u2019s point and thought this might be for me.\u00a0 It might help me get OK and happy,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/01\/loving-me-was-easier-a-parable-for-the-perplexed\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I married myself, but we\u2019ve reconsidered and have filed for divorce.\u00a0 It\u2019s no one\u2019s fault, really, but we are emotionally devastated nevertheless. At least we have no children.\u00a0 Sologamy didn\u2019t seem to suit us.\u00a0 We had acted impetuously.\u00a0 I had gotten the idea after hearing a NPR radio report about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}