{"id":86770,"date":"2016-01-30T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T02:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86770"},"modified":"2024-08-10T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T20:59:28","slug":"the-two-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86770","title":{"rendered":"The Two Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/30\/the-two-paths\/\">From the Chateau<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>From what looks to be a late 19th Century pamphlet advising women to <a href=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/04\/oneitis-and-the-wall-the-two-most-important-life-lessons-you-can-impart-to-your-sons-and-daughters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heed the approach of The Wall<\/a> and to abstain from the life of a dissolute party girl, (h\/t @KaliYugaSurf):<\/p>\n<p>Our ancestors were wise. There was no &#8220;40 is the new 20&#8221; back then. A single woman at 40 has lost all her feminine charms; a sexual market outcast, for sure, but also a social outcast. The two designations tend to go hand-in-hand for women who remain unmarried and childless. (To a much lesser extent, this is true for men as well, but men have the option of several compensating social and sexual status-boosting pursuits that mitigate any marginal ostracism from remaining unmarried and childless.)<\/p>\n<p>It was also assumed by our wise elders that women would have children by age 26, committing them to a life of home of hearth and removing them utterly from the field of courtship. Today? Eh&#8230;. not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Chateau: From what looks to be a late 19th Century pamphlet advising women to heed the approach of The Wall and to abstain from the life of a dissolute party girl, (h\/t @KaliYugaSurf): Our ancestors were wise. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86770","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=86770"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156851,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86770\/revisions\/156851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}