{"id":7578,"date":"2012-08-09T03:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T03:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7578"},"modified":"2012-08-09T03:37:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T03:37:49","slug":"hikikomori-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/hikikomori-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikikomori, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/x-ray_glasses.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/x-ray_glasses-251x300.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"x-ray_glasses, but not\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/x-ray_glasses-251x300.gif 251w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/x-ray_glasses.gif 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/ultra-orthodox-jewish-men-offered-blurry-glasses-look-to-keep-israeli-women-out-of-sight\/2012\/08\/08\/7ce41b90-e174-11e1-89f7-76e23a982d06_story.html\">Via <\/a>the <em>Washington Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JERUSALEM \u2014 It\u2019s the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don\u2019t have to see women they consider to be immodestly dressed.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to maintain their strictly devout lifestyle, the ultra-Orthodox have separated the sexes on buses, sidewalks and other public spaces in their neighborhoods. Their interpretation of Jewish law forbids contact between men and women who are not married<br \/>\nWalls in their neighborhoods feature signs exhorting women to wear closed-necked, long-sleeved blouses and long skirts. Extremists have accosted women they consider to have flouted the code.<\/p>\n<p>Now they\u2019re trying to keep them out of clear sight altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The ultra-Orthodox community\u2019s unofficial \u201cmodesty patrols\u201d are selling glasses with special blur-inducing stickers on their lenses. The glasses provide clear vision for up to a few meters so as not to impede movement, but anything beyond that gets blurry \u2014 including women. It\u2019s not known how many have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>For men forced to venture outside their insular communities, hoods and shields that block peripheral vision are also being offered\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Washington Post: JERUSALEM \u2014 It\u2019s the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don\u2019t have to see women they consider to be immodestly dressed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/hikikomori-again-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[912,679],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7603,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578\/revisions\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}