{"id":195004,"date":"2008-08-04T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/04\/a-tempest-in-a-d-cup\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:20:00","slug":"a-tempest-in-a-d-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/04\/a-tempest-in-a-d-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tempest in a D-Cup*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to concerns that underwires and other bra components might cause injury if an officer were shot while wearing a bra, underwires, and other metal plactic portions of the bra could cause physical injury, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/germany\/2497655\/Bullet-resistant-bras-for-German-police.html\">German police have issued them to their female police officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>They are all emblazoned with the word &#8220;police&#8221; and made from cotton, polyester, elastic and some other synthetic materials, thickly padded and with no metal or plastic studs or fasteners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How long before they shoe up on eBay?<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">No apology for the pun.  It&#8217;s the entire reason I wrote the story.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to concerns that underwires and other bra components might cause injury if an officer were shot while wearing a bra, underwires, and other metal plactic portions of the bra could cause physical injury, the German police have issued them to their female police officers. They are all emblazoned with the word &#8220;police&#8221; and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1148,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-fashion","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195004"}],"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=195004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}