{"id":185505,"date":"2014-11-01T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/01\/thank-you-chelsea-handler\/"},"modified":"2014-11-01T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:15:00","slug":"thank-you-chelsea-handler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/01\/thank-you-chelsea-handler\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Chelsea Handler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gkUDNFQ.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gkUDNFQ.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a>Comedienne Chelsea Handler posted a parody of Putin&#8217;s shirtless horseback photo to Instagram, and was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mbvd\/chelsea-handler-mocks-vladimir-putin-with-topless-horseback\">justifiably pissed off when they took the image down<\/a>, (NSFW pic at link) and has dumped Instagram for Twitter in response.<\/p>\n<p>I understand, and I agree with her basic point, but this is not why I am thanking her.<\/p>\n<p>I am thanking her for showing us her breasts.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that a woman voluntarily, and proudly, showing her breasts is an independent good.  (No, I have not seen the stolen photographs of Jennifer Lawrence, etc., and I find the involuntary posting of these sorts of pics to be an unconscionable violation of privacy)<\/p>\n<p>I consider it to be a very public gift, and so I am writing this note to thank her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedienne Chelsea Handler posted a parody of Putin&#8217;s shirtless horseback photo to Instagram, and was justifiably pissed off when they took the image down, (NSFW pic at link) and has dumped Instagram for Twitter in response. I understand, and I agree with her basic point, but this is not why I am thanking her. I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1092,1048,1003,1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-humor","category-philosophy","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185505"}],"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=185505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}