{"id":274,"date":"2003-07-22T18:20:03","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T23:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/07\/22\/105891240377162651\/"},"modified":"2003-07-22T18:20:03","modified_gmt":"2003-07-22T23:20:03","slug":"105891240377162651","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/22\/105891240377162651\/","title":{"rendered":"105891240377162651"},"content":{"rendered":"

She has your creases and my folds!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"And<\/p>\n

I regularly get e-mail announcement from friends who are welcoming a baby in their life. It is to be expected – after all, I am in the *ahem* second half of my thirties and most of my friends are now mothers and, in some cases, expecting a second child.<\/p>\n

So when I received an e-mail today which read « Baby Emily has arrived », I thought that it was coming from another happy couple. Boy, did I freak out when I saw that picture of Emily<\/a>! Everybody knows that a human being is not at his\/her most attractive stage when he\/she is only a few days old. So why on earth would anybody actually want a doll that looks like a boxer who just came out of the ring and pay 150$ US<\/a> for it? It is truly creepy, especially when you read on and find this information about the doll:<\/p>\n

Handcrafted in Ashton-Drake’s RealTouch\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd vinyl skin with lifelike creases and folds – the FIRST « So True Real » doll from Ashton-Drake.<\/p>\n

Hand-applied hair and eyelashes and carefully designed finger and toenails for incredible realism.<\/p>\n

Hospital bracelets are personalized with the doll’s name.<\/p>\n

Each comes with six FREE « birth announcements » and a Certificate of Authenticity.<\/em><\/p>\n

At least the Cabbage Patch Kids<\/a> didn’t look real! Can you imagine a childless couple buying this doll and sending birth announcements to their friends and family? The thought of this freaks me out. Is it because I’m not a mother? Who knows, but it just seems odd.<\/p>\n

I bet you I could walk around town with this doll in a pram and people would say she looks like me. If you say « Actually, she does! », I’ll kill ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She has your creases and my folds! I regularly get e-mail announcement from friends who are welcoming a baby in their life. It is to be expected – after all, I am in the *ahem* second half of my thirties and most of my friends are now mothers and, in some cases, expecting a second… Continue reading 105891240377162651<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}