{"id":24419,"date":"2016-09-29T22:27:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24419"},"modified":"2016-09-29T22:40:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:40:21","slug":"the-scandal-sootys-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-scandal-sootys-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"The scandal of Sooty\u2019s girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies to readers whose childhood was deprived by an absence of Sooty and have no idea what I am talking about, but I thought this was a good illustration of the fact that there really is a slippery slope. Today Sooty would be gay, have a boyfriend and there would be no scandal. Or he would be a transgender bear.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-37505309\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/9\/9b\/Sooty2011.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"126\" \/>The idea to introduce a female puppet to Sooty&#8217;s children&#8217;s TV show in the 1960s was so controversial that the BBC director general had to intervene, a new documentary has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The suggestion by Sooty creator Harry Corbett caused a furore in the press, which claimed it would &#8220;introduce sex into a children&#8217;s programme&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/sthildaschurch.ca\/wp\/jwplayer\/jwplayer.js'><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"mediaplayer\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  jwplayer('mediaplayer').setup({\n    'flashplayer': 'http:\/\/sthildaschurch.ca\/wp\/jwplayer\/player.swf',\n    'id': 'playerID',\n    'width': '480',\n    'height': '270',\n    'file': 'https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BBC-Sooty-row-over-sexing-up-revealed-BBC-News.flv'\n  });\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies to readers whose childhood was deprived by an absence of Sooty and have no idea what I am talking about, but I thought this was a good illustration of the fact that there really is a slippery slope. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-scandal-sootys-girlfriend\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2396],"class_list":["post-24419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-sooty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24419","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=24419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}