{"id":7097,"date":"2004-02-04T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/02\/04\/smockpapa\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T14:21:14","slug":"smockpapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/02\/smockpapa\/","title":{"rendered":"Smockpapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/0204\/csmimg\/p4a.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"195\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">PIETRASANTA, ITALY &#8211; Down a narrow lane in this sleepy Tuscan town there is one particularly clean and tidy home, with one particularly unlikely housekeeper: a man. In this traditionally macho land, Fiorenzo Bresciani happily dons an apron, flutters his duster, and spends hours at the ironing board. When his wife, a doctor, comes home from a hard day&#8217;s work, Mr. Bresciani has dinner on the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;Italy is changing,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Economic changes mean Italian men are making beds, doing the ironing and the vacuum cleaning these days. We think it&#8217;s time to change the way people think about housework &#8211; make it respectable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">To make his point, Mr Bresciani has insisted that authorities list his profession as &#8220;househusband&#8221; on his national ID card.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/0204\/p01s04-woeu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/summamamas.stblogs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">smockmama<\/a> might appreciate this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIETRASANTA, ITALY &#8211; Down a narrow lane in this sleepy Tuscan town there is one particularly clean and tidy home, with one particularly unlikely housekeeper: a man. In this traditionally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","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=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}