{"id":3059,"date":"2020-02-01T17:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T17:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2020-02-01T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T17:58:38","slug":"i-heard-the-rustling-of-the-dress-for-two-whole-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=3059","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I heard the rustling of the dress for two whole hours&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_5e8e2f66-4358-11ea-ae97-7fc3f44cb422.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3060\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_5e8e2f66-4358-11ea-ae97-7fc3f44cb422-580x326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_5e8e2f66-4358-11ea-ae97-7fc3f44cb422-580x326.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_5e8e2f66-4358-11ea-ae97-7fc3f44cb422-940x528.jpg 940w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_5e8e2f66-4358-11ea-ae97-7fc3f44cb422-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_5e8e2f66-4358-11ea-ae97-7fc3f44cb422-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_5e8e2f66-4358-11ea-ae97-7fc3f44cb422.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the end of the book I had come to understand why kindness and cruelty cannot vanquish each other, and why, irrespective of our various ideas about social progress, our sexual and gender politics will always teeter, endlessly and without remedy, between &#8220;Orwellian oppression and the Hobbesian jungle&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/strange-antics-by-clement-knox-review-seduction-qw0sxm9fj\">Reading Strange Antics: A history of seduction by Clement Knox, 1 February 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of the book I had come to understand why kindness and cruelty cannot vanquish each other, and why, irrespective of our various ideas about social progress, our sexual and gender politics will always teeter, endlessly and without &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=3059\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617,78],"tags":[479,787,243,264,783],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reviews-and-opinion","category-reviews-and-opinion","tag-book-review","tag-enlightenment","tag-politics","tag-sex","tag-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}