{"id":7047,"date":"2004-07-26T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/07\/26\/the-burqa-and-the-bikini\/"},"modified":"2004-07-26T13:54:01","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T18:54:01","slug":"the-burqa-and-the-bikini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/07\/the-burqa-and-the-bikini\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burqa and the Bikini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">The Old Oligarch <a href=\"http:\/\/old-oligarch.blogspot.com\/2004_07_01_old-oligarch_archive.html#109082934511833844\">expounds on<\/a> modesty and swim ware inspired by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theresamf.blogspot.com\/2004_07_01_theresamf_archive.html#109079015492991845\">post by Theresa MF<\/a>. The whole post is well worth reading as he states &quot;The burqa and the bikini are polar extremes of the same fundamental error.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">There is a sickness in a society that makes children&#8217;s thongs. Recently there have been some murmurings of a possible return to some level of modesty, but for the most part the slutification of our socieity continues. <\/p>\n<p>It use to anger me the amount of skin displayed on magazines as you approach the checkout lane or what I call &quot;temptation aisle.&quot; Taking possession of my eyes looking neither right or left like I was being sung to by the sirens. I read a tip on a Carmelite list serve where they suggested instead of getting angry that to spend the time praying for the publishers and those involved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I do wish that stores had a policy that posters and full sized advertisement displayed would have to conform to the same clothing standard as the shoppers. If someone went to a store dressed like the pictures displayed they would be arrested. And don&#8217;t even get me started on modesty at Mass. Sometimes after leaving the Church I look around for the swimming pool that these people must have dressed for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Oh and by the way the Old Oligarch finally got around to adding a site feed. So now those with aggregators can easily track his latest posts.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/old-oligarch.blogspot.com\/atom.xml\">Atom Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Update: SecretAgentMan weighs in with a post on male dress at Mass called <a href=\"http:\/\/secret-agent.blogspot.com\/2004_07_01_secret-agent_archive.html#109090486335721687\">Dressing like a Doofus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Oligarch expounds on modesty and swim ware inspired by a post by Theresa MF. The whole post is well worth reading as he states &quot;The burqa and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}