{"id":4919,"date":"2012-03-12T19:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T23:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2017-01-25T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:17:12","slug":"remember-when-children-were-innocent-and-people-fought-to-protect-and-maintain-that-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2012\/03\/remember-when-children-were-innocent-and-people-fought-to-protect-and-maintain-that-innocence.html","title":{"rendered":"remember when children were innocent and people fought to protect and maintain that innocence&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 Not too long ago I had a client in my office. She was accompanied by her bubbly little six year old daughter in curly pig-tails. Adorable little thing  really. This little cherub was going through a stack of decorating magazine I keep at my desk and she excitedly thrust the magazine in her mom\u2019s face declaring, \u201cLook mommy! It\u2019s Nicki Minaj! Isn\u2019t she beautiful? I love her!\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t really Nicki Manij [aka Roman, aka Rrrrosa, aka Split Personality Psycho Who Is Possibly Even Possessed] In fact, it wasn\u2019t anyone famous, just a generic model standing in a fancy laundry room selling washing machines in her lingerie \u2013 You know, the typical advertising used to sell appliances now-a-days. <\/p>\n<p>Since I was at work there was only so much I could say, or couldn\u2019t say, like how the hell does a six year old know who Nicki Minaj is? My only recourse was to offer the mother my disapproving scowl. <figure id=\"attachment_4920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4920\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/03\/the-Dowager-disapproves.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/03\/the-Dowager-disapproves.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"the Dowager disapproves\" width=\"460\" height=\"287\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4920\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dowager Countess does not approve of your parenting. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>And no, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostgame.com\/blog\/style-points\/201203\/six-year-old-canucks-fan-does-lmfao-right\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">not everything a kid does is cute<\/a>. 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