{"id":265,"date":"2004-12-03T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/more-sexual-repression\/"},"modified":"2004-12-03T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T16:48:00","slug":"more-sexual-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/more-sexual-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"More sexual repression!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing effort to reach out to a younger demographic (after the depressing <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004_11_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#110174045687103253\">epiphany<\/a> of last week), Preposterous continues to track the forces of reaction as they attempt to recreate a lost Puritan utopia. In this case, no claim to breaking the news: from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davosnewbies.com\/\">Davos Newbies<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/prigs_prudes_puritans_and_prissy_pissants\/\">Pharyngula<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\/archives\/002942.html\">Crooked Timber<\/a>, a story from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0d159fbc-4408-11d9-be59-00000e2511c8.html\">Financial Times<\/a> explains why Americans can&#8217;t be trusted to see Veronese frescoes shown on television. Something about naked Cupids. No word on colors or flavors.<\/p>\n<p>For those readers in our older, post-giggling demographic, here&#8217;s more traditional fare:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/03\/opinion\/03fri3.html?oref=login\">NSF budget slashed<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriscmooney.com\/blog.asp?Id=1428\">Chris C. Mooney<\/a>.  I guess there&#8217;s a fine line between &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncseonline.org\/Updates\/page.cfm?FID=1949\">double the budget<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;cut by $100 million.&#8221;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing effort to reach out to a younger demographic (after the depressing epiphany of last week), Preposterous continues to track the forces of reaction as they attempt to recreate a lost Puritan utopia. In this case, no claim to breaking the news: from Davos Newbies via Pharyngula and Crooked Timber, a story from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}