{"id":7828,"date":"2012-09-30T19:53:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T23:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2012-09-30T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T23:53:46","slug":"walmart-isnt-afraid-of-cleavage-but-doesnt-want-you-to-know-what-your-breasts-need-most-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/30\/walmart-isnt-afraid-of-cleavage-but-doesnt-want-you-to-know-what-your-breasts-need-most-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart isn’t afraid of cleavage (but doesn’t want you to know what your breasts need most at night)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So there I was in a checkout line at Walmart (which I know many of you have an objection to that reaches an almost religious fervor, but let’s leave the discussion of that for some other time, OK?) when I noticed something intriguing about the latest issue of Cosmopolitan<\/em>. You know all about the brouhaha over the magazines, right, how many stores hide most of the covers, leaving only the logo visible, so cleavage doesn’t offend the unwary?<\/p>\n

One example\u2014my local supermarket, which only let me see Zooey Deschanel from the lips up this afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Walmart, on the other hand, was OK with letting me glimpse Deschanel’s cleavage, as you can see from the U-shaped shield below\u2014<\/p>\n

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\u2014which saved me from exposure to such racy headlines as “What Your Breasts Need Most at Night” and “78 Crazy-Hot Sex Facts: They’ll Knock Your Panties Off.”<\/p>\n

Whew!<\/p>\n

Who knew that Walmart, with its policy of not stocking CDs with Parental Advisory labels, insisting instead that music be censored<\/a>, would be less censorious than some when it comes to those controversial Cosmo<\/em> covers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there I was in a checkout line at Walmart (which I know many of you have an objection to that reaches an almost religious fervor, but let’s leave the discussion of that for some other time, OK?) when I noticed something intriguing about the latest issue of Cosmopolitan. You know all about the brouhaha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,242,243,241],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-censorship","tag-cosmopolitan","tag-magazines","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}