{"id":183978,"date":"2012-09-19T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/19\/my-hero-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T23:56:00","slug":"my-hero-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/19\/my-hero-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"My Hero of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got nothing to add but, &#8220;hurray!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue; font-size: large;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5944741\/iranian-woman-beats-the-crap-out-of-cleric-for-telling-her-to-cover-up\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Iranian Woman Beats the Crap Out of Cleric for Telling Her to Cover Up<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A cleric in Iran went crying to the country&#8217;s state-run Mehr News Agency after a run-in with a woman who responded to his repeated requests to cover up by kicking the crap out of him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">While walking to a mosque in the northern city of Shahmirzad, Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti says he encountered a &#8220;badly covered&#8221; woman, and proceeded to &#8220;politely&#8221; order her to correct her outfit.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;You, cover your eyes,&#8221; the woman reportedly responded. He then told her again to cover up, at which point she decided she&#8217;d had enough.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Not only didn&#8217;t she cover herself up, but she also insulted me,&#8221; the cleric told Mehr. &#8220;I asked her not to insult me anymore, but she started shouting and threatening me. She pushed me and I fell to the ground on my back. From that point on, I don&#8217;t know what happened. I was just feeling the kicks of the woman who was beating me up and insulting me.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got nothing to add but, &#8220;hurray!&#8221; Iranian Woman Beats the Crap Out of Cleric for Telling Her to Cover Up A cleric in Iran went crying to the country&#8217;s state-run Mehr News Agency after a run-in with a woman who responded to his repeated requests to cover up by kicking the crap out of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1034,1021,1015,1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-iran","category-religion","category-weird","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}