{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Bit Shift (bitshift)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jun-12 04:44:01 UTC","author_name":"Bit Shift (bitshift)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/bitshift","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1516768","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/6766\" class=\"url\" title=\"Toksyuryel\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">toksyuryel<\/span><\/a><\/span> Actually, it was due to Gen. 1 (where genders weren't a thing) backwards compatibility; they had to encode it into something which would survive trading to\/from G1, so Pokemon didn't change genders when trading between the two generations and back."}