{"id":2340,"date":"2010-08-03T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T01:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2010-08-13T07:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:18:39","slug":"the-rabbit-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=2340","title":{"rendered":"The rabbit is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I&#8217;d never heard of this before, despite the fact it apparently appears in pop culture quite a bit.  But in the early development stages of the current &#8220;pee on a stick to determine hCG levels in your urine&#8221; tests for pregnancy, they hit on the &#8220;inject a rabbit with pee and see if its ovaries do something funny to determine hCG levels in your urine&#8221; test for pregnancy.  Of course, to check a few days later if the ovaries had changed, the rabbit was invariably killed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:220px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/967938998_nKKh3-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people are under the impression that the rabbit would only die if the woman was pregnant though, leading to the phrase &#8220;the rabbit died&#8221; being used as a euphemism for a positive pregnancy test. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I&#8217;d never heard of this before, despite the fact it apparently appears in pop culture quite a bit. But in the early development stages of the current &#8220;pee on a stick to determine hCG levels in your urine&#8221; tests for pregnancy, they hit on the &#8220;inject a rabbit with pee and see if its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"1","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 16 years ago","modified":"Updated 16 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 3.8.2010","modified":"Updated on 13.8.2010"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 3.8.2010 6:12 pm","modified":"Updated on 13.8.2010 7:18 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}