{"id":495,"date":"2003-05-27T21:20:52","date_gmt":"2003-05-28T02:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=495"},"modified":"2003-05-27T21:20:52","modified_gmt":"2003-05-28T02:20:52","slug":"interesting-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/05\/interesting-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Article, Peony! Breasts are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Interesting Article, Peony!<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBreasts are considered sex objects in the United States and are thus supposed to be covered up in public. Dia Michaels, a District mother of three and president of Platypus Media, which publishes books for families, teachers and parenting professionals, says: &#8220;Breasts are used to sell everything from beer to cars these days, and so Americans are terrified of seeing breast-feeding in public.&#8221; She notes that some people act horrified when they see her nursing her 4-year-old and that she has heard comments ranging from &#8220;That&#8217;s not allowed here&#8221; to &#8220;That&#8217;s disgusting&#8221; to &#8220;Isn&#8217;t she too old for that?&#8221; when she nurses her daughter in restaurants, parks, or on airplanes and the Metro.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I never understand the irony of this, how people do not mind seeing breasts for everything but what they are intended for.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Ivey, one of the founders of Mocha Moms, a support group for at-home mothers of color, <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Mocha Moms?<\/i><br \/>\nThis is off topic from what the article is about, and I am glad that there is a focus for minority women to stay at home and breastfeed-it is long overdue. But do they have to have that corny name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Article, Peony! Breasts are considered sex objects in the United States and are thus supposed to be covered up in public. Dia Michaels, a District mother of three and president of Platypus Media, which publishes books for families, teachers and parenting professionals, says: &#8220;Breasts are used to sell everything from beer to cars these&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/05\/interesting-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting Article, Peony! Breasts are<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}