{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "This is the first place I've ever been where I've wanted to reshape myself to fit it rather than the other way around, and I...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/47752951497/", "html": "<p>This is the first place I&rsquo;ve ever been where I&rsquo;ve wanted to reshape myself to fit it rather than the other way around, and I really do appreciate the way people get along, but<br/><br/>I&rsquo;m still suburbanova professional class stock, loyalties attendant<br/><br/>I was in a bar once and overheard a &lsquo;tender talk about how she and her boy made a baby, and this gay dude couple adopted it, all 4 of them co-workers, and all took 3 months off on family leave<br/><br/>And this is all unpaid leave, and it&rsquo;s pretty much impossible to walk a dog in this town without running into 10 people looking to pick up bar shifts, and now that I look it up a single employer can insist couples go consecutively rather than concurrently<br/><br/>But jesus christ did my sympathies immediately go out to the owner/managers.</p>"}