{"id":27806,"date":"2011-08-17T17:02:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/terry_mattingly-god_barbies_and_moms\/"},"modified":"2011-08-17T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:02:34","slug":"terry_mattingly-god_barbies_and_moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27806","title":{"rendered":"Terry Mattingly&#8211;God, Barbies and moms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a question that can cause tension and tears in a circle of home-school moms in a Bible Belt church fellowship hall.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a question that can have the same jarring impact in a circle of feminist mothers in a Manhattan coffee shop.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is: Will you buy your daughter a Barbie doll? Other questions follow in the wake of this one, linked to clothes, self-esteem, cellphones, makeup, reality TV shows and the entire commercialized princess culture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0205_columns\/x1443108565\/God-Barbies-and-moms\/print\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a question that can cause tension and tears in a circle of home-school moms in a Bible Belt church fellowship hall. It&#8217;s a question that can have the same jarring impact in a circle of feminist mothers in a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27806\">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":[39,40,101,582,149,98,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806","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=27806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}