{"id":31621,"date":"2020-12-21T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31621"},"modified":"2020-12-21T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:59:30","slug":"word-of-the-day-635","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/21\/word-of-the-day-635\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Petting parties<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To some social observers, petting parties of the 1920s were a natural, post-First World War outgrowth of a repressed society. To others, the out-in-the-open hug-and-kissfests were blinking neon signposts on the Road to Perdition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Petting parties varied quite a lot,&#8221; says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/history.berkeley.edu\/people\/paula-s-fass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paula S. Fass<\/a>, professor emerita of history at the University of California, Berkeley and author of\u00a0The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. &#8220;But certainly there were parties where young people did quite a lot of erotic exploration \u2014 kissing and fondling. These parties always stopped before intercourse. In that sense they had imposed limitations created by the group presence. They were not orgies and they were not promiscuous \u2014 one set of partners only.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Petting parties, Fass explains, &#8220;allowed young people to experiment in a self-limiting way by creating peer regulation that both encouraged experimentation and created clear limits.&#8221;<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/npr-history-dept\/2015\/05\/26\/409126557\/when-petting-parties-scandalized-the-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linton Woods, <strong>NPR<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New one on me. I guess I don&#8217;t get out much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petting parties: To some social observers, petting parties of the 1920s were a natural, post-First World War outgrowth of a repressed society. To others, the out-in-the-open hug-and-kissfests were blinking neon signposts on the Road to Perdition. &#8220;Petting parties varied quite a lot,&#8221; says\u00a0Paula S. Fass, professor emerita of history at \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/21\/word-of-the-day-635\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31622,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31621\/revisions\/31622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}