{"id":25412,"date":"2010-04-06T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/06\/seventeen-women-beaten-by-gove\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:12:46","slug":"seventeen-women-beaten-by-gove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/seventeen-women-beaten-by-gove\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen Women Beaten by Government Workers in Oxford Alabama over Fashion Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wait, sorry, they weren&#8217;t &#8220;women&#8221; exactly &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nthey were High School Students.  Beaten by school officials.  But wait, they weren&#8217;t really &#8220;beaten&#8221; exactly &#8230; they were &#8220;paddled.&#8221; Oh, and the fashion choice &#8230; they were prom dresses that were to revealing, breaking a school dress code that a neckline would not go below the &#8220;breastbone&#8221; and a hem would not go above six inches above the ankle.<\/p>\n<p>So they were actually  high school girls paddled by school officials because they were not Amish-looking enough.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/nation\/article\/alabama-teen-erica-deramus-suspended-over-too-revealing-prom-dress\/19425583\"><br \/>\nThe story is here. <\/a>  Strangely, the story is not about the beating of 17 women, but rather, about the one who chose to be suspended rather than beaten.  For some reason, that&#8217;s a bigger story.<\/p>\n<p>Jaw, meet floor. Face, mean palm. A true WTF moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wait, sorry, they weren&#8217;t &#8220;women&#8221; exactly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6BS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}