I can only describe the process of going out and getting my first tattoo as awkward.\u00a0 I initially wanted it above my right hip bone, but the tattoo artist suggusted that I place it lower, so the tattoo wouldn’t stretch out if I ever would decide to have children in the future.\u00a0 His reasoning sounded logical to me, so I agreed. To be honest, however, having children was the last thing on my mind at that moment.\u00a0 I had to unbutton my jeans and expose my underwear, which was a little embarassing.\u00a0After all, I was showing my underwear to some random guy that I had met just a few moments ago.\u00a0 He was like a dirty roach moving\u00a0in\u00a0on my personal space with every vibration of the needle,\u00a0although I had no one else to blame but myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s funny, because although the process was exposing,\u00a0the tattoo\u00a0wouldn’t be visible to anyone else but me, and that’s the way I wanted it. The only thing that mattered was that it held some meaning for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I can only describe the process of going out and getting my first tattoo as awkward.\u00a0 I initially wanted it above my right hip bone, but the tattoo artist suggusted that I place it lower, so the tattoo wouldn’t stretch out if I ever would decide to have children in the future.\u00a0 His reasoning sounded … Continue reading My First Tattoo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}