{"id":17629,"date":"2010-01-31T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/alexandra_adornetto_in_the_smh_guard_your_virginity-_once_lost_its_its_gone\/"},"modified":"2010-01-31T16:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T16:00:55","slug":"alexandra_adornetto_in_the_smh_guard_your_virginity-_once_lost_its_its_gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17629","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Adornetto (The Age): Guard your virginity. Once lost, it&#39;s, it&#39;s gone forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginity is a hot topic at the moment, prompted by comments from the Leader of the Opposition. He may have copped a lot of flak but Tony Abbott&#8217;s advice makes a lot of sense and there&#8217;s nothing alarming in it. Besides, being a parent gives him a right to express his views publicly.<\/p>\n<p>I am not embarrassed to admit that my &#8221;gift&#8221; remains unwrapped &#8211; at least for the time being. Losing your virginity or &#8221;V-plates&#8221; (as some of us like to call it) has always been a preoccupation of adolescents. Where to do it? When to do it? Who to do it with? Parents advise us to put it off, young men argue that right now would be the best time and some religions insist we must wait until marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/opinion\/society-and-culture\/guard-your-virginity-once-lost-its-its--gone-forever-20100130-n5g9.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginity is a hot topic at the moment, prompted by comments from the Leader of the Opposition. He may have copped a lot of flak but Tony Abbott&#8217;s advice makes a lot of sense and there&#8217;s nothing alarming in it.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17629\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,204,168,112,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}