{"id":2117,"date":"2009-03-20T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T01:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2009-03-20T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T01:16:38","slug":"dora-the-pre-teen-hoochie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/20\/dora-the-pre-teen-hoochie\/","title":{"rendered":"Dora the Pre-Teen Hoochie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is funny how much media attention is being paid to the newer \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slightly more grown-up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d version of <em>Dora the Explorer<\/em> by disgruntled parents and children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s advocates.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a fictional character people!  They are all up in arms as if it were a <em>real<\/em> little kid \u00e2\u20ac\u201c almost as if it were their <em>own<\/em> child being exploited.  Heck, since they personalize it so much, shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they be <em>proud<\/em> that the dumpy, androgynous daughter that they are so emotionally invested in has grown up pretty?  All the press releases have been very specific that the children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s television program will remain unchanged, and that particular character merchandising effort will also go unchanged.  The new pre-teen character is a parallel toy marketing scheme aimed at older kids who grew up with the preschool-aged Dora and are now in the same \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tweens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d demographic.  I bet the same people who are going nuts over this fictional character  would be the first to speak out about how unhealthy or sick it is for <em>otaku<\/em> to be obsessing over fictional <em>annie-may<\/em> characters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is funny how much media attention is being paid to the newer \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slightly more grown-up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d version of Dora the Explorer by disgruntled parents and children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s advocates. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a fictional character people! They are all up in arms as if it were a real little kid \u00e2\u20ac\u201c almost as if it were their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,7,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-y9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}