{"id":189471,"date":"2010-03-23T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/23\/margaret-and-helen-are-a-treasure\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T01:26:00","slug":"margaret-and-helen-are-a-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/23\/margaret-and-helen-are-a-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret and Helen Are A Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, it&#8217;s Helen Philpot, who <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretandhelen.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/23\/no-more-hoo-hoo-for-you-know-who\/\">suggests a classical solution for the problem that is people voting for Bart Stupak<\/a>, the nominally Democratic anti-abortion grand-stander in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>By classical, I mean a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> old classic, the comedy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lysistrata\">Lysistrata<\/a>, which was first performed in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">411 BCE<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Bart, if you want to reduce abortions, vote to fully fund family planning and comprehensive sex education.   Otherwise, shut the hell up.  We don\u2019t care what you think about our wombs.<\/p>\n<p>Women in Michigan should hang a closed sign across their hoo-hoo\u2019s until Stupak is either voted out of Congress or grows a vagina of his own.  I mean it.  Really.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant!<\/p>\n<p>If you have the money (I don&#8217;t), go to <a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/40yrs\/\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Matthew Saroff&#8217;s Act Blue  Page<\/span><\/span><\/a>, and throw a few bucks at Connie Saltonstall, who is challenging him in the primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, it&#8217;s Helen Philpot, who suggests a classical solution for the problem that is people voting for Bart Stupak, the nominally Democratic anti-abortion grand-stander in Michigan. By classical, I mean a really old classic, the comedy Lysistrata, which was first performed in 411 BCE: Bart, if you want to reduce abortions, vote to fully fund &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,998,1000,1002,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-congress","category-elections","category-good-writing","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189471"}],"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=189471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}