{"id":126,"date":"2005-06-02T21:30:44","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T01:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/saudis-outraged-at-a-proposal-to-lift-the-ban-on-women-driving\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T21:30:44","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T01:30:44","slug":"saudis-outraged-at-a-proposal-to-lift-the-ban-on-women-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/saudis-outraged-at-a-proposal-to-lift-the-ban-on-women-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudis outraged at a proposal to lift the ban on women driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans women from driving. The AP has an <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory?id=812963\">article<\/a> about the Saudi response to the possibility of lifting the ban:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservatives, who believe women should be shielded from strange men, say driving will allow a woman to leave home whenever she pleases and go wherever she wishes. Some say it will present her with opportunities to violate Islamic law, such as exposing her eyes while driving or interacting with strange men, like police officers or mechanics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, that is how most 80&#8217;s porn flicks start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans women from driving. The AP has an article about the Saudi response to the possibility of lifting the ban: Conservatives, who believe women should be shielded from strange men, say driving will allow a woman to leave home whenever she pleases and go wherever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}