{"id":25187,"date":"2017-07-10T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=25187"},"modified":"2017-07-10T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T18:40:26","slug":"drag-queen-story-hour-comes-to-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/drag-queen-story-hour-comes-to-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Drag Queen Story Hour comes to Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto\u2019s children\u2019s libraries have been hosting Drag Queen Story Hour whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dragqueenstoryhour.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated aim<\/a> is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>just what it sounds like\u2014drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress up is real.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the young lady in this video points out, drag queens live by their own rules, the only virtue left to a civilisation that has abandoned its Christian foundation, so if you&#8217;d like to take junior to a local children\u2019s library <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/scroll\/213084\/lil-miss-hot-mess-makes-a-great-childrens-storyteller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lil Miss Hot Mess<\/a> will be only too happy to mess with his rules.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/3387328\/\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto\u2019s children\u2019s libraries have been hosting Drag Queen Story Hour whose stated aim is: just what it sounds like\u2014drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/drag-queen-story-hour-comes-to-toronto\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[2459],"class_list":["post-25187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-confusion","tag-drag-queen-story-hour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187","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=25187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}