{"id":1642,"date":"2005-05-16T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/daddys_girl\/"},"modified":"2005-05-16T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T15:45:41","slug":"daddys_girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/daddys_girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy&#8217;s Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not an authority on parenting.  And, sadly, don&#8217;t even possess a great deal of expertise on &#8220;courting.&#8221;  But <a title=\"Daddy's Girl: Courtship and a Father's Rights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bibletopics.com\/biblestudy\/92b.htm\">this whole mindset<\/a> seems rather <strike>bizarre<\/strike> quaint to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I define courtship as the discovery of a life-partner for a daughter under the direct oversight of the father. Any man seeking to beg, borrow or steal a daughter&#8217;s hand without her father&#8217;s endorsement is seeking to gain, in unlawful ways, &#8220;property&#8221; not his own. Daughters are Daddy&#8217;s girls in the objective sense, and this particular daughter rejoices in that truth. I am owned by my father. If someone is interested in me, he should see <i>him<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Suffice it to say, an awful lot of women have gotten themselves in bad situations by taking these beliefs too literally.<br \/>\nMore commentary <a href=\"http:\/\/sadlyno.com\/archives\/001331.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mutantcat.blogdrive.com\/archive\/108.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/daddys_girl\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Daddy&#8217;s Girl\"><p>I&#8217;m not an authority on parenting. And, sadly, don&#8217;t even possess a great deal of expertise on &#8220;courting.&#8221; But this whole mindset seems rather bizarre quaint to me: I define courtship as the discovery of a life-partner for a daughter under the direct oversight of the father. Any man seeking to beg, borrow or steal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}