{"id":1625,"date":"2011-04-10T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:12:02","slug":"on-flappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"On flappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember vividly the umbrage my mother (born 1899) gathered up, expressed and projected in my direction when I [quite innocently] asked if she&#8217;d been &#8220;a flapper&#8221; back in the day. &#8220;Certainly NOT!&#8221; I think she said, but the withering tone was beyond any I think I&#8217;d ever encountered. A few minutes spent with <a href=\"http:\/\/bookflaps.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/flappers-dictionary.html\">The Flapper&#8217;s Dictionary<\/a> is probably as close as one can get to understanding her animus. She was a person of considerable rectitude, inclined to take moral turpitudes Seriously: with eloquent fluttering of the eyelids she declared Sophie Tucker&#8217;s songs &#8220;suggestive&#8221; (and so they were, deliciously). Very early on, I learned which of my own realities to protect her from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember vividly the umbrage my mother (born 1899) gathered up, expressed and projected in my direction when I [quite innocently] asked if she&#8217;d been &#8220;a flapper&#8221; back in the day. &#8220;Certainly NOT!&#8221; I think she said, but the withering tone was beyond any I think I&#8217;d ever encountered. A few minutes spent with The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lexicon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}