{"id":804,"date":"2006-03-13T00:54:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T08:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/the_melting_pot_in_a_vial.html"},"modified":"2006-03-13T00:54:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T08:54:44","slug":"the_melting_pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/the_melting_pot.html","title":{"rendered":"The Melting Pot, In A Vial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Post’s Lindsay Powers investigates local sperm bank options and sees New York itself<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But I scroll on to more local options, including No. 356 from the Sperm Bank of New York Inc. An 18-page description ($12) and a baby picture (also $12) reveal an Italian-Irish man who works in public relations, is a vegetarian and never gets upset when he has to wait in line. He looks quite dapper as a kid, in a gingham bow tie and straw-colored hair.<\/p>\n

But what about the guy with the Ivy League degree on Idant Laboratories’ Web site? He’s a Jew of Russian heritage who studied at a prestigious Midwestern university.<\/p>\n

JACKPOT! He went to Dalton, the super-exclusive Upper East Side high school. But could I use that to get our kid in?<\/p>\n

Intrigued, I click to spend an extra $8 and view a handwritten 10-page profile, where I learn that this guy — a lab technician calls him “a really rich and good-looking lawyer” — has self-described “excellent, thick” hair.<\/p>\n

But let’s be honest. I’m a blonde. And women want their kids to resemble them a bit.<\/p>\n

“You won’t have a 5-foot-2 Chinese woman saying to us, ‘I want a blond, tall donor,'” said Rodgaard.<\/p>\n

My eyes drift over to an Italian-German-Hungarian, at the Park Avenue Fertility Group, who loves Chinese and Italian food and does laundry in his spare time.<\/p>\n

“We used to only sell lumberjack types from Minnesota,” said Joanne, the office manager there. “But we started using local samples to appeal to a more Upper East Side, Jewish and WASPy clientele.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Post’s Lindsay Powers investigates local sperm bank options and sees New York itself: But I scroll on to more local options, including No. 356 from the Sperm Bank of New York Inc. An 18-page description ($12) and a baby picture (also $12) reveal an Italian-Irish man who works in public relations, is a vegetarian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}