{"id":243,"date":"2014-10-15T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T11:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/?p=243"},"modified":"2022-03-03T04:25:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:25:36","slug":"scarlet-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/scarlet-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt: Scarlet Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I get up out of the chair, advance my feet into the sunlight, in their red shoes, flat-heeled to save the spine and not for dancing. The red gloves are lying on the bed. I pick them up, pull them onto my hands, finger by finger. Everything except the wings around my face is red: the colour blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full. The white wings too are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen. I never looked good in red, it&#8217;s not my colour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2013 <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale <\/em>(1985) by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Bibliography:<\/strong><br \/>\nAtwood, Margaret. <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em>. New York:\u00a0Anchor Books, 1998. Print.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image Credit:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Red Dress<\/em> by Anna and Elena Balbusso from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inprnt.com\/gallery\/balbotwins\/red-dress-ispired-by-the-handmaids-tale-novel\/\">Balbusso Twins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get up out of the chair, advance my feet into the sunlight, in their red shoes, flat-heeled to save the spine and not for dancing. The red&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,29,31],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-excerpt","tag-fashion","tag-identity","tag-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/10\/a115bb2c1141eb31411dbcb88d9bdea5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TvUL-3V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3553,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/3553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portmanteau.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}