{"id":723,"date":"2007-10-11T13:33:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T13:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/defining-beauty\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T13:33:23","slug":"defining-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/defining-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boomerwomenmarketing.typepad.com\/about.html\">Mary Brown<\/a> brings us some refreshing thoughts on beauty in her <a href=\"http:\/\/boomerwomenmarketing.typepad.com\/boomer_women_marketing\/2007\/03\/doves_images_of_1.html\">post<\/a> around Dove&#8217;s new ad and how popular TV is responding.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve become accustomed, if not brainwashed, to believe that beauty is defined by a Victoria&#8217;s Secret model.<\/p>\n<p>If beauty is age specific only, then be afraid, be very afraid.&nbsp; Say it ain&#8217;t so!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my criteria for beauty in a woman:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A soul surrendered to God.&nbsp; A woman of this variety is the closest thing on earth to heaven. <\/li>\n<li>A care for her looks and adornment.&nbsp; Notice, I said care and not preoccupation. <\/li>\n<li>Knows her values and is aligned with them. <\/li>\n<li>Has a nurturing heart and mind. <\/li>\n<li>Fights for those that cannot fight for themselves. <\/li>\n<li>She is vulnerable. <\/li>\n<li>Accepts that it is OK to be a woman.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s my list.&nbsp; You may have a different one, but we can agree that beauty is not age specific.&nbsp; Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Brown brings us some refreshing thoughts on beauty in her post around Dove&#8217;s new ad and how popular TV is responding.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve become accustomed, if not brainwashed, to believe that beauty is defined by a Victoria&#8217;s Secret model. If beauty is age specific only, then be afraid, be very afraid.&nbsp; Say it ain&#8217;t so!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}