{"id":46,"date":"2006-03-30T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/dear-abby-chastity-belt"},"modified":"2006-03-30T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T00:50:49","slug":"dear-abby-chastity-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/dear-abby-chastity-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Abby Chastity Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"abby3.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/abby3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image49\" height=\"96\" alt=\"abby3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/abby3.thumbnail.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"abby2.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/abby2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image48\" height=\"96\" alt=\"abby2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/abby2.thumbnail.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"abby5.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/abby5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image47\" height=\"96\" alt=\"abby5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/abby5.thumbnail.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a brief shining moment or two, I was blessed with the opportunity to work for &#8220;<strong><em>Dear<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Abby<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, the beloved newspaper advice columnist. For many years, the column has been written by the daughter of the original &#8220;Abby&#8221;, who is afflicted with Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeanne_Phillips\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanne<\/a>, is the type of woman one might call a Real Piece of Work. Her office was a world unlike any other; I can only describe it as a Mad Tea-Party.<\/p>\n<p>My most treasured souvenir of this experience is a set of handcrafted chastity belts, sent in by one of Abby&#8217;s many ardent admirers. They&nbsp;\u00a0are fashioned out of hammered stainless steel, and lined with the alarming pelts of some small dead animal. One has been engraved with the name &#8220;Dear Abby&#8221;, and the other&#8230;.less specific but no less affectionate&#8230;.says simply: &#8220;Pussy Cat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While they clearly deserve permanent installation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian<\/a>,&nbsp;\u00a0at present&nbsp;\u00a0they are on display in a paper bag underneath my bedroom dresser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a brief shining moment or two, I was blessed with the opportunity to work for &#8220;Dear Abby&#8220;, the beloved newspaper advice columnist. For many years, the column has been written by the daughter of the original &#8220;Abby&#8221;, who is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/dear-abby-chastity-belt\/\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}