{"id":1547,"date":"2006-06-14T22:21:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T05:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/06\/14\/uh-huh\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:38","slug":"uh-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/06\/14\/uh-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh-huh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling snarky. The first comment caused me to choke on the popcorn I was eating. It just got more and more rich as I read further.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Lauer did ask Ms. Spears why she had chosen Namibia for the birth of her child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kevin has always been a fan of African-American culture,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll feel at home there, <em>rapping with all the natives<\/em>. Besides, there&#8217;s lots of quiet unpaved roads where Sean Preston and I can go driving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Spears also said that Namibia reminds her of California &#8220;because it&#8217;s on the ocean and there&#8217;s lots of sand. So if Sean Preston fell off his swing and landed on his head, there&#8217;s less chance he would be hurt and we&#8217;d have those snoops from child welfare up our butts all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, said Ms. Spears, &#8220;I heard that Namibia has laws that let celebrities say whether or not journalists are allowed in the country. That&#8217;s so important, even more important than getting the same villa that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/entertainment\/2006-06\/14\/content_617023.htm\">Britney Spears going to Namibia to give birth<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here I am, trying to conceive, and this twit is on her second child.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> According to Husband, <em>I&#8217;ve been trolled<\/em>! The article is a spoof. Well, it was listed on Google news. So reader beware!<\/p>\n<p>Still, it seems true-to-life enough that I could imagine her saying this stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling snarky. The first comment caused me to choke on the popcorn I was eating. It just got more and more rich as I read further. Mr. Lauer did ask Ms. Spears why she had chosen Namibia for the birth of her child. &#8220;Kevin has always been a fan of African-American culture,&#8221; she replied. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12275,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/12275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}