{"id":21637,"date":"2014-06-17T23:33:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21637"},"modified":"2014-06-17T23:33:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:33:58","slug":"the-right-to-wear-facial-hardware-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-right-to-wear-facial-hardware-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The right to wear facial hardware at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/edmonton-woman-s-petition-supports-piercings-tattoos-at-work-1.2677835?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Edmonton woman is fighting for the right to proudly display her facial piercings without fear of professional punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Kendra Behringer has pierced her ears, eyebrows and lips in an act of &#8220;self-expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, she believes her appearance has cost her jobs,\u00a0something she hopes to change by launching a petition slamming workplace discrimination against tattooed and pierced employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Behringer is successful \u2013 something that wouldn\u2019t surprise me \u2013 she may open up a new opportunity for Christians who have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1187093\/Hospital-worker-told-shell-sacked-keeps-wearing-crucifix-spread-infection.html\" target=\"_blank\">harassed for wearing a cross<\/a> at work. Punch a hole in your eyebrow, stick the cross in it and you will be OK.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure that if there are theological implications to wearing an eyebrow cross, Rowan Williams \u2013 who may already have several for all we know &#8211; would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9137510\/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-wearing-a-cross-just-decoration-says-Dr-Rowan-Williams.html\" target=\"_blank\">only too happy to elucidate<\/a> them; I know, I know, writing \u201celucidate\u201d and \u201cRowan Williams\u201d in the same sentence is the essence of oxymoron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: An Edmonton woman is fighting for the right to proudly display her facial piercings without fear of professional punishment. Kendra Behringer has pierced her ears, eyebrows and lips in an act of &#8220;self-expression.\u201d However, she believes her appearance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-right-to-wear-facial-hardware-at-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[1822,1821,2241,1820],"class_list":["post-21637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-kendra-behringer","tag-piercing","tag-rowan-williams","tag-tatoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}