{"id":4585,"date":"2008-09-08T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2017-11-05T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T22:30:12","slug":"the-culture-wars-are-over-and-somebody-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/the-culture-wars-are-over-and-somebody-won\/","title":{"rendered":"The Culture Wars Are Over, And Somebody Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in my sainted mother&#8217;s living room, and I flip through one of the innumerable catalogs she gets.  It&#8217;s the Carol Wright gifts catalog, from which I and she have ordered many Christmas presents and trinkets for loved ones in years past.  An innocuous piece of cataloguery, or so I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Until I hit the page that had the personal massagers, male enhancement products, and Naked Aerobics\/Naked Yoga and Tai Chi DVDs.<\/p>\n<p>Crikey, Carol Wright&#8211;<i>Carol Wright!<\/i>&#8211;has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolwrightgifts.com\/cwg_v2\/cwg_layout_base2.cfm?seq_no=1&#038;mid_sec_page=cwg_main_catgs&#038;CatgSel=0700&#038;SubCatgSel=105900&#038;numProdStart=1\" target=\"_blank\">sexual aids section<\/a> (NSFW, probably).<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I&#8217;m not shocked on account that these things are available, but I am shocked that I found them amongst the throw blankets, quilted air conditioner covers, and magnetic windshield covers.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next?  A Vibrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchofclass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Touch of Class<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in my sainted mother&#8217;s living room, and I flip through one of the innumerable catalogs she gets. It&#8217;s the Carol Wright gifts catalog, from which I and she have ordered many Christmas presents and trinkets for loved ones in years past. An innocuous piece of cataloguery, or so I thought. Until I hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17315,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/17315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}