{"id":719,"date":"2009-04-14T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T10:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2009-04-14T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T10:21:20","slug":"the_cultural_decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"The Cultural Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/technology\/sexting.vermont.teens.2.983956.html\">CBS TV<\/a>&nbsp;outlet in Vermont is reporting on the Vermont legislature&#8217;s move to make&nbsp;text messaging&nbsp;sexually explicit pictures of yourself not a crime if you are under eighteen and the person receiving the text is under eighteen.&nbsp; The legislature will hear more testimony on the subject later this week.&nbsp; Currently teenagers texting sexually explicit pictures among themselves can be charged under child pornography laws.&nbsp; I am not going to comment on the law or the possibility of the law, but there are some aspects of this we need to look at.<\/p>\n<p>What has happened to the concept of dating that a girl would even consider sending explicit pictures to her boyfriend or other male friend?&nbsp; Have we totally lost the idea of valuing girls and women for something other than sex?&nbsp; Whatever happened to the idea of spending time with a member of the opposite sex as a teenager and simply enjoying each other&#8217;s company and enjoying common interests?&nbsp; What have we done to the value of all people when the behavior&nbsp;of explicit texting is commonly happening among our teenagers?&nbsp; The fact that the issue of &#8216;sexting&#8217; is being legally addressed should be a wake-up call to us all.&nbsp; Best wishes to anyone raising a teenager in this atmosphere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBS TV&nbsp;outlet in Vermont is reporting on the Vermont legislature&#8217;s move to make&nbsp;text messaging&nbsp;sexually explicit pictures of yourself not a crime if you are under eighteen and the person receiving the text is under eighteen.&nbsp; The legislature will hear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=719\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}