{"id":61047,"date":"2016-11-23T06:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61047"},"modified":"2016-11-23T06:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:11:09","slug":"just-take-the-picture-bake-the-cake-do-the-flowers-sew-the-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61047","title":{"rendered":"Just Take The Picture \/ Bake The Cake \/ Do The Flowers \/ Sew The Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dress maker does the thing that got Christian bakers \/ florists \/ photographers in trouble; <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/306763-fashion-designer-refuses-to-dress-melania-trump\">exercises her right of free association<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As one who celebrates and strives for diversity, individual freedom and respect for all lifestyles, I will not participate in dressing or associating in any way with the next First Lady,&#8221; Sophie Theallet wrote in a letter this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rhetoric of racism, sexism, and xenophobia unleashed by her husband\u2019s presidential campaign are incompatible with the shared values we live by,\u201d Theallet wrote about President-elect <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI encourage my fellow designers to do the same,\u201d she continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the big difference is that Melania Trump isn&#8217;t part of a &#8220;protected class&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Which is rich, isn&#8217;t it? \u00a0Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Peter Thiele, Jennifer Lopez and Carlos Slim are all &#8220;protected classes&#8221;. \u00a0Because apparently &#8220;white privilege&#8221; or &#8220;straight priviliege&#8221;, er, trumps whatever they&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dress maker does the thing that got Christian bakers \/ florists \/ photographers in trouble; exercises her right of free association: &#8220;As one who celebrates and strives for diversity, individual freedom and respect for all lifestyles, I will not participate in dressing or associating in any way with the next First Lady,&#8221; Sophie Theallet wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61085,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047\/revisions\/61085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}