{"id":61631,"date":"2017-07-20T06:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T10:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61631"},"modified":"2017-07-20T05:45:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:45:58","slug":"la-times-irans-latest-culture-battle-should-women-in-cars-keep-their-heads-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61631","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Iran&#8217;s latest culture battle: Should women in cars keep their heads covered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reihane Taravati, an outspoken social media activist, was riding in a taxi the other day when she received a stern reprimand from the driver.<\/p>\n<p>Unbeknownst to Taravati, 26, her headscarf \u2014 which Iranian women are required to wear as a show of modesty \u2014 had slipped down the back of her head, leaving most of her hair exposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFix your scarf, or the undercover [moral] police will see it,\u201d the cabbie told her. He worried about receiving a ticket in the mail, which would cost him about $30.<\/p>\n<p>As Taravati relayed this story while sipping tea with friends in a Tehran cafe, a debate was raging in the Iranian capital that combines two things that people here obsess over: cars and the way women dress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/middleeast\/la-fg-iran-cars-hijab-2017-story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reihane Taravati, an outspoken social media activist, was riding in a taxi the other day when she received a stern reprimand from the driver. Unbeknownst to Taravati, 26, her headscarf \u2014 which Iranian women are required to wear as a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61631\">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":[564,138,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-travel","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61631","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=61631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61633,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61631\/revisions\/61633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}