{"id":6701,"date":"2025-01-30T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celesta.nl\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2025-01-30T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:43:08","slug":"an-octopus-came-out-of-my-belly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celesta.nl\/index.php\/an-octopus-came-out-of-my-belly\/","title":{"rendered":"An octopus came out of my belly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/celesta.nl\/index.php\/ik-heb-een-octopus-gebaard\/\">Dutch Translation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never in a million years I would have thought, I would be giving birth to an actual Octopus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/celesta.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ripley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/celesta.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ripley-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Ripley's\" class=\"wp-image-6697\" style=\"width:283px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/celesta.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ripley-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/celesta.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ripley-632x356.jpg 632w, https:\/\/celesta.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ripley-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/celesta.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ripley-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/celesta.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ripley-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/celesta.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ripley.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You know; the one with a ton of arms and legs: or are they just arms, or just legs, someone tell me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are able to do a million things at the same time like brushing their teeth and putting their socks on while cooking a complete vegan meal, but also somehow forgetting where they put their phone even though it\u2019s literally in their hand, because multitasking is just chaos with good PR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And maybe while doing all that drawing and painting 10 different realistic artworks with all hands and feet sweeping around.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All simultaneously. At the same time. All of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you would have guessed, the actual giving birth was a hell of a hell. And back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019m still writing a book about that xxx event in history. Or rather I\u2019m now translating it in English.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myself. So it takes a while.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A long while it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So to keep it ultra short: the Ripley\u2019s gang are very lucky they put that Octopus in their \u2018Believe It Or Not\u2019-book, or else we\u2019d all be dealing with a passive-aggressive eight-armed cease-and-desist letter written in squid ink and stapled to our faces because octopuses do not forget slights and also have more brains than we do, which feels unfair and a little rude, honestly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you can read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rajacenna.com\/multi-task-queen-in-ripleys-believe-it-or-not\/\">this<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch Translation Never in a million years I would have thought, I would be giving birth to an actual Octopus.&nbsp; You know; the one with a ton of arms and legs: or are they&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1256,1268,9,2,1],"tags":[547,1323,298,1332,1331],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chaos","category-flash-crap","category-this","category-crap","category-whos-gonna-read-this-anyway","tag-blogs","tag-octopus","tag-rajacenna-2","tag-ripley-book","tag-woman-blogger"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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