{"id":518,"date":"2008-03-13T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/13\/barbies-pregnant-friend\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T19:59:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T00:59:58","slug":"barbies-pregnant-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/13\/barbies-pregnant-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie\u2019s Pregnant Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a doll Mattel put out as part of the Barbie line a few years ago. Her name is Midge. Apparently she is Barbie’s long-time friend. If you notice, Midge is pregnant. Her belly opened up and there was a baby inside. The line Midge is part of is called Happy Family.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is Alan, Midge’s husband, and Ryan, their son. Midge and Alan were married in 1991, according to Mattel.<\/p>\n

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This is the whole Happy Family line–Alan and Ryan, Midge and baby, and grandparents.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> The pregnant Midge doll was quickly pulled from the market because of protests that Midge might be interpreted as a single mother. Mattel argued that Midge and Alan had been married for years, but conservative groups argued that since she was sold separately<\/em>, girls could get the wrong message and think she wasn’t married.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a doll Mattel put out as part of the Barbie line a few years ago. Her name is Midge. Apparently she is Barbie’s long-time friend. If you notice, Midge is pregnant. Her belly opened up and there was a baby inside. The line Midge is part of is called Happy Family. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099,2088,272,23703,1711,120],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-marriagefamily","tag-marketing","tag-toysgames","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16972,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/16972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}