{"id":142,"date":"2008-09-14T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=142"},"modified":"2015-01-26T23:46:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:46:18","slug":"virgin-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/09\/14\/virgin-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Dylan (a pseudonym, of course) hopes to make a cool million auctioning her virginity. And why not? Some are outraged at the prospect, but why shouldn&#8217;t she? I&#8217;m actually surprised that it took this long for something like this to hit the news, given our capitalist society. Natalie seems to be a smart girl: &#8220;Not only does she have a degree in Women&#8217;s Studies, she is looking to raise money to continue her education and get her master&#8217;s degree in Psychology so she can practice Family Psychology&#8221; from the promotional flyer posted at the <a title=\"the Bunny Ranch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bunnyranch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bunny Ranch<\/a>. She just wants some cash. <a title=\"CBS13 report and video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bunnyranch.com\/news\/virgin%20video\/virgin%20video.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CBS reported<\/a> a few days ago that the bidding is up to $250K.<\/p>\n<p>So, um, I wonder if there&#8217;s a peripheral deal for the video rights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Dylan (a pseudonym, of course) hopes to make a cool million auctioning her virginity. And why not? Some are outraged at the prospect, but why shouldn&#8217;t she? I&#8217;m actually surprised that it took this long for something like this to hit the news, given our capitalist society. Natalie seems to be a smart girl: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/09\/14\/virgin-auction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virgin Auction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[28,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}