{"id":8478,"date":"2010-07-04T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8478"},"modified":"2010-07-05T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T15:00:33","slug":"the-beauty-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8478","title":{"rendered":"The beauty myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tin has a thing for good looking gals. I thought it was just him but then I read that children show a definite preference for beautiful faces. Yesterday, when my niece walked in the room with us to wake him up from his nap, he instantly put his game face on &#8211; the serious one, when he is put in an unfamiliar situation. But then he started becoming the little charmer, the flirt, as soon as he got a good look at his cousin&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>Children know surface beauty intuitively, but the broader picture takes skills that only age will develop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>As we grow old &#8230; the beauty steals inward. <\/em><br \/>\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tin has a thing for good looking gals. I thought it was just him but then I read that children show a definite preference for beautiful faces. Yesterday, when my niece walked in the room with us to wake him up from his nap, he instantly put his game face on &#8211; the serious one, when he is put in an unfamiliar situation. But then he started becoming the little charmer, the flirt, as soon&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2cK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8483,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions\/8483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}