{"id":64567,"date":"2017-10-19T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64567"},"modified":"2017-10-19T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:37:02","slug":"nyt-branding-ritual-scarred-women-in-secret-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64567","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Branding Ritual Scarred Women in Secret Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women.<\/p>\n<p>To gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter \u2014 or \u201cmaster,\u201d as she was called \u2014 naked photographs or other compromising material and were warned that such \u201ccollateral\u201d might be publicly released if the group\u2019s existence were disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The women, in their 30s and 40s, belonged to a self-help organization called Nxivm, which is based in Albany and has chapters across the country, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been told she would get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared for what came next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/17\/nyregion\/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html\">Read it all<\/a> (and please note the headline above is from the NYT print edition).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women. To gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter \u2014 or \u201cmaster,\u201d as she was called<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64567\">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":[39,209,104,155,129,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-health-medicine","category-other-faiths","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64567","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=64567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64570,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64567\/revisions\/64570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}