{"id":2077,"date":"2008-05-14T09:53:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T14:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2008-05-14T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T14:53:37","slug":"good-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/good-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why would this child&#8217;s mother <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackvoices.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/13\/prom-dress-arrest-houston\/?icid=1615984947x1202234772x1200304470\">let her out of the house like this?<\/a>.<br \/>\nNow the headlines claim &#8220;arrested for prom dress&#8221;, which is not exactly true. The police were called over the commotion caused when she was asked to leave because her dress was inappropriate.<br \/>\nThat being the case, I really don&#8217;t see how this is as newsworthy as the original headlines make it out to be.<br \/>\nHowever, I am just so frustrated. Why do girls no longer see beauty in something beautiful? Why do they only see beauty in skimpy? How skimpy does a dress have to be these days to be the nicest dress, because Oh Girl&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t leave any room for hers to be topped. I keep thinking about when I was a very small girl, and how I would love to play dress-up with my patent-leather Mary Janes, little white gloves and anything frilly and pink. How sad for someone so young to have already lost that childhood simplicity.<br \/>\nI often feel like The Modesty Police and oddly, it is not a subject I am that obsessed with. I am just tired of women being objectified. God gifted us when he made us the more visually beautiful of the two sexes. But this isn&#8217;t beauty. I don&#8217;t know what this is.This is taking God&#8217;s delicate art and saying &#8220;it needs more color&#8221; and spray painting it fluorescent pink.<br \/>\nWhat I also don&#8217;t understand is where are her parents? Why isn&#8217;t her father barring the door with a shot gun &#8220;Hell no you ain&#8217;t going out the house looking like that!&#8221; Isn&#8217;t that what fathers do? Why isn&#8217;t her mother telling her &#8220;I know you think this is pretty, but this is not appropriate, let&#8217;s find a compromise.&#8221; Isn&#8217;t that the point of mothers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would this child&#8217;s mother let her out of the house like this?. Now the headlines claim &#8220;arrested for prom dress&#8221;, which is not exactly true. The police were called over the commotion caused when she was asked to leave because her dress was inappropriate. That being the case, I really don&#8217;t see how this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/good-grief\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Grief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}