{"id":100,"date":"2009-07-12T19:01:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T23:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=100"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:06:17","slug":"psa-iranian-men-in-danger-of-melting-fly-infestation-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2009\/07\/12\/psa-iranian-men-in-danger-of-melting-fly-infestation-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Iranian Men in Danger of Melting, Fly Infestation, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo, circulating online during the last week of June 2009 and during the more chaotic moments of the recent unrest in Iran, makes a strong statement: Iranian men are in grave risk of \u201cinsecurity\u201d due to their (carelessly!) eschewing the <em>hijab<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Veil is Security\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs104.snc1\/4773_98697998187_87288323187_1939082_2696654_n.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Considering the <em>hijab<\/em>\u2018s<em> <\/em>myriad moral and social benefits for Muslim women, equal-opportunity veiling\u00a0is clearly the next logical step for Iranian men. Too long has this\u00a0\u201cempowering\u201d privilege been reserved for the lesser gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo, circulating online during the last week of June 2009 and during the more chaotic moments of the recent unrest in Iran, makes a strong statement: Iranian men are in grave risk of \u201cinsecurity\u201d due to their (carelessly!) eschewing the hijab. Considering the hijab\u2018s myriad moral and social benefits for Muslim women, equal-opportunity veiling\u00a0is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2009\/07\/12\/psa-iranian-men-in-danger-of-melting-fly-infestation-etc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PSA: Iranian Men in Danger of Melting, Fly Infestation, etc.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}