{"id":4227,"date":"2013-12-08T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2016-06-27T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:14:16","slug":"sworn-virgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=4227","title":{"rendered":"Sworn Virgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/burneshas-albanian-women-who-live-as-men-jill-peters-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4228\" title=\"burneshas-albanian-women-who-live-as-men-jill-peters-1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/burneshas-albanian-women-who-live-as-men-jill-peters-1-620x386.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/burneshas-albanian-women-who-live-as-men-jill-peters-1-620x386.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/burneshas-albanian-women-who-live-as-men-jill-peters-1-440x274.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/burneshas-albanian-women-who-live-as-men-jill-peters-1.jpg 915w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Downloads.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4229\" title=\"Downloads\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Downloads-440x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Downloads-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Downloads-620x413.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Sworn Virgin, or \u2018burnesha\u201d elevated a woman to the status of a man and granted her all the rights and privileges of the male population. In order to manifest the transition such a woman cut her hair, donned male clothing and sometimes even changed her name. Male gestures and swaggers were practiced until they became second nature. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demilked.com\/burnesha-albanian-sworn-virgins-women-who-live-as-men-jill-peters\/\">More photos here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sworn Virgin, or \u2018burnesha\u201d elevated a woman to the status of a man and granted her all the rights and privileges of the male population. In order to manifest the transition such a woman cut her hair, donned male clothing and sometimes even changed her name. Male gestures and swaggers were practiced until they became&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}