{"id":391,"date":"2007-07-17T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/sullied-be-thy-name\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T11:48:08","slug":"sullied-be-thy-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/sullied-be-thy-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Sullied Be Thy Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British girl who took her school to court for not allowing her to wear a &#8220;purity ring&#8221;, has lost the case and now has to cough up 12 grand. This is, of course, excellent news, but I was more interested in another aspect of the story. Have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/law\/article2087264.ece\" target=\"_new\">the article<\/a> and note the dramatis personae:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lydia Playfoot<\/li>\n<li>Michael Supperstone<\/li>\n<li>Paul Diamond<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t these strike you as being a little unusual ? They could have been invented by Dickens or Brecht. <\/p>\n<p>Michele&#8217;s reaction to the name &#8220;Lydia Playfoot&#8221; was &#8220;more like Lydia Oral-play, because that&#8217;s typically what these girls do instead.&#8221; She has a wonderful way with words. The other night she drifted into the front room where I was watching &#8216;face the music&#8217; on BBC4. She regarded the TV for a few seconds before turning round and asking &#8220;what is this high-brow shit ?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Made me laugh anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British girl who took her school to court for not allowing her to wear a &#8220;purity ring&#8221;, has lost the case and now has to cough up 12 grand. This is, of course, excellent news, but I was more interested in another aspect of the story. Have a look at the article and note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}