{"id":508,"date":"2005-01-13T21:48:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T03:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=508"},"modified":"2005-01-14T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T22:45:40","slug":"speaker-tells-middle-school-students-stripping-can-be-lucrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Tells Students Stripping Can Be Lucrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astoundingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/state\/20050113-1655-ca-students-stripdancing.html\">dumb move<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>School officials in Palo Alto are reconsidering their use of a popular speaker for an annual career day after he advised middle school students that they could earn a good living as strip dancers.<\/p>\n<p>William Fried told eighth-graders at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School that stripping and exotic dancing could be lucrative career moves for girls, offering as much as $250,000 or more per year, depending on their bust size.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sick, but it&#8217;s true,&#8221; Fried, president of Foster City&#8217;s Precision Selling, a management consulting firm, told The Associated Press. &#8220;The truth of the matter is you can earn a tremendous amount of money as an exotic dancer, if that&#8217;s your desire.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, Mr. Fried, you&#8217;ve gone that far.  Anything you want to add that can make it worse?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fried spent about a minute answering questions, defining strippers and exotic dancers synonymously. He told students, &#8220;For every two inches up there, you should get another $50,000 on your salary,&#8221; student Jason Garcia, 14, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yes, I guess there was something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astoundingly dumb move. School officials in Palo Alto are reconsidering their use of a popular speaker for an annual career day after he advised middle school students that they could earn a good living as strip dancers. William Fried told eighth-graders at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School that stripping and exotic dancing could be lucrative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}