{"id":15601,"date":"2011-05-16T17:16:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T22:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=15601"},"modified":"2011-05-16T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T22:17:06","slug":"are-these-shoes-modest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/are-these-shoes-modest\/","title":{"rendered":"Are these shoes modest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/l3.zassets.com\/images\/z\/1\/4\/3\/1430737-p-DETAILED.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Follow up questions:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Is it possible for any shoes to be immodest?<\/p>\n<p>(2) Can (lack of) functionality render something immodest?<\/p>\n<p>(3) Can extreme departure from the norm render something immodest?<\/p>\n<p>(4) Would shoes designed to draw a lot of attention be immodest?<\/p>\n<p>(5) Can cost make shoes (or clothing) immodest?  (These shoes are $675 at Zappos.)  If so, what is the price cut-off for modest shoes?<\/p>\n<p>Just in case it isn&#8217;t clear, this post really isn&#8217;t about these shoes.  It is about the parameters of modesty.<\/p>\n<p>Also to be clear, this isn&#8217;t about judging the woman sitting next to you in Relief Society [1] who is wearing these shoes.  It is about modesty in the abstract and not whether other people are sinning.<\/p>\n<p>[1]  I almost changed &#8220;Relief Society&#8221; to Sacrament Meeting so as not to exclude the men reading this, but then I thought, hey, might be fun for them to know what that feels like for once.  You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15629,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601\/revisions\/15629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}