{"id":620,"date":"2009-03-05T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2009-03-05T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:49:24","slug":"a-case-of-the-human-condition-banning-barbie-in-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-banning-barbie-in-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case of the Human Condition: Banning Barbie in West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/p>\n<p>Ban Barbie? Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, says Jeff Eldridge, a second-term Democratic delegate to the West Virginia\u00a0legislature. Eldridge asserts that the Barbie doll encourages little girls to develop their\u00a0physical beauty over their intellectual and emotional development, so he&#8217;s\u00a0introduced a bill banning the sale of Barbie dolls in the state of West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just hate the image that we give to our kids that if you&#8217;re beautiful, you&#8217;re beautiful and you don&#8217;t have to be smart,&#8221; Eldridge told West Virginia media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For details, check out the Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think? Does the buxom, skinny-hipped Barbie have\u00a0the right to a spot on the shelves of America&#8217;s toy stores? <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Falconer Newhall Ban Barbie? Seriously? Yes, says Jeff Eldridge, a second-term Democratic delegate to the West Virginia\u00a0legislature. Eldridge asserts that the Barbie doll encourages little girls to develop their\u00a0physical beauty over their intellectual and emotional development, so he&#8217;s\u00a0introduced a bill banning the sale of Barbie dolls in the state of West Virginia. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,107,108],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-barbie-doll","tag-girls","tag-jeff-eldridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}