{"id":1570,"date":"2004-08-12T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T20:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2015-05-14T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:32:08","slug":"my-heart-is-throbbing-with-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"The Book That &#8220;Introduced Sexuality&#8221; To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/archives\/2004_08.php#003004\">post on Book Slut<\/a>, and immediately thought of one of our old discussions here.<\/p>\n<p>The article in question is not live yet, but apparently it&#8217;s going to cover <i>Flowers in the Attic<\/i>, by VC Andrews, and how that book &#8216;introduced sexuality to a generation of youngsters&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I count myself among that generation.  Sexuality was introduced to me through a sick story of incest, emaciated ballerinas, arsenic-laced sugar doughnuts, inappropriate attic lust, and years of Dickensian imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this post on Book Slut, and immediately thought of one of our old discussions here. The article in question is not live yet, but apparently it&#8217;s going to cover Flowers in the Attic, by VC Andrews, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1570\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101814,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/101814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}