{"id":3829,"date":"2010-03-17T04:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2010-03-17T04:48:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:48:30","slug":"repost-nyrblog-girls-girls-girls-the-new-york-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/17\/repost-nyrblog-girls-girls-girls-the-new-york-review-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: NYRblog &#8211; Girls! Girls! Girls! &#8211; The New York Review of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Our successors\u2014liberated from old-style constraints\u2014have imposed new restrictions upon themselves. Since the 1970s, <strong>Americans assiduously avoid anything that might smack of harassment, even at the risk of forgoing promising friendships and the joys of flirtation. Like men of an earlier decade\u2014though for very different reasons\u2014they are preternaturally wary of missteps. <\/strong>I find this depressing. The Puritans had a sound theological basis for restricting their desires and those of others. But today\u2019s conformists have no such story to tell.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nybooks.com\/post\/441569341\/girls-girls-girls\">NYRblog &#8211; Girls! Girls! Girls! &#8211; The New York Review of Books<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our successors\u2014liberated from old-style constraints\u2014have imposed new restrictions upon themselves. Since the 1970s, Americans assiduously avoid anything that might smack of harassment, even at the risk of forgoing promising friendships and the joys of flirtation. Like men of an earlier decade\u2014though for very different reasons\u2014they are preternaturally wary of missteps. I find this depressing. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/17\/repost-nyrblog-girls-girls-girls-the-new-york-review-of-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: NYRblog &#8211; Girls! Girls! Girls! &#8211; The New York Review of Books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}