{"id":583,"date":"2007-07-31T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2011-07-14T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T19:53:42","slug":"damage-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Damage Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecalendargirls.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/whats-doing-damage.html\">Danielle Berrin blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francescaliablock.com\/\">Francesca Lia Block<\/a> told the audience the reading would be difficult for her because her story was so personal. In it, she revealed a deep shame over her appearance and the botched plastic surgeries that worsened her self-concept.<\/p>\n<p>It is in those moments of pain, when a woman is messy underneath, that she craves a little &#8216;lift,&#8217; a touch of color, or a new &#8216;do. When her appearance improves, her emotions follow suit. Or do they?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;An anonymous makeup artist who works at a strip club wrote, &quot;Sometimes, the only peace in a woman&#8217;s day is the twenty-minutes when she&#8217;s getting her toes done or her fingernails done. The only time she has when someone else is completely focusing on her. One of those rare opportunities when someone&#8217;s looking her in the eyes and seeing what she needs.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Berrin blogs: Francesca Lia Block told the audience the reading would be difficult for her because her story was so personal. In it, she revealed a deep shame over her appearance and the botched plastic surgeries that worsened her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,9188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar-girls","category-danielle-berrin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}