{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "People be like \u201cJonathan Franzen considered adopting an Iraqi orphan, what was he thinking?\u201d  Well, I\u2019m guessing he was thinking...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/127743102183/", "html": "<p>People be like \u201cJonathan Franzen considered adopting an Iraqi orphan, <i>what was he thinking</i>?\u201d<br/></p><p>Well, I\u2019m <i>guessing</i> he was thinking by analogy to the fact that adopting Vietnam War orphans was a definite thing among the \u201870s literari/smart set.</p><p>Like, I definitely remember at least one writer reminiscing about the incongruity of going to majority-Asian bar mitzvahs in the \u201880s Upper West Side, and Doonesbury, the \u201cadventures of Boomer elite archetypes\u201d comic strip had <a href=\"http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/cast/member/24\" target=\"_blank\">a character</a> with just such a backstory.<br/></p><p>Of course what\u2019s changed since then is the coastal \u201cstart a family in your 40s\u201d types now have access to fertility treatments.<br/></p>"}