{"id":170,"date":"2017-02-22T11:33:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=170"},"modified":"2017-02-22T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:33:48","slug":"chastity-and-flowers-response-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/epic-romance\/chastity-and-flowers-response-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chastity and flowers &#8211; Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Rachel,<\/p>\n<p>With regard to your point about flowers and chastity&#8211; I definitely understand your point about flowers being sexual in nature, but I have also seen flowers used to represent virginity. With this representation, the connection between chastity and flowers makes much more sense. One term I think of is to &#8220;deflower,&#8221; meaning to take one&#8217;s virginity. I do not know the exact origins of this term or how long it has been around, but from a brief web search, it does not seem to be a modern term so could have been relevant around this time period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Rachel, With regard to your point about flowers and chastity&#8211; I definitely understand your point about flowers being sexual in nature, but I have also seen flowers used to represent virginity. With this representation, the connection between chastity and flowers makes much more sense. One term I think of is to &#8220;deflower,&#8221; meaning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}