{"id":7375,"date":"2013-03-18T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7375"},"modified":"2013-03-18T05:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T09:51:18","slug":"zoo-bans-saggy-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7375","title":{"rendered":"ZOO BANS &#8216;SAGGY PANTS&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Monday, March 18 2013<br \/>\nNewsday &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,174981.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,174981.html\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/newsday180313.png' width='150' height='190' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Front page of Newsday: ZOO BANS SAGGY PANTS' \/><\/a>Responding to scores of requests from its paying patrons over the last month, the management of the Emperor Valley Zoo took the bold decision to ban entry to men who are inappropriately dressed in sagging trousers which expose their jockey shorts or other choice of underwear being worn.<\/p>\n<p>Athough the origin of \u201cSagging\u201d is not known for sure, the prevailing opinion seems to be that it began in prison, due to inmates not being allowed to wear belts. Many people believe that bearing this in mind, it is therefore incomprehensible as to why this would gain popularity here in Trinidad or elsewhere, especially among the younger generation,<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPresident of the Zoological Society of Trinidad and Tobago, Gupte Lutchmedial stated the ban was necessary as complaints have increased especially from senior citizens and families visiting the zoo, who claim they are discomforted by this breach of decency having encountered several young men \u201csporting\u201d this style in recent times.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,174981.html\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 18 2013 Newsday &#8211; newsday.co.tt Responding to scores of requests from its paying patrons over the last month, the management of the Emperor Valley Zoo took the bold decision to ban entry to men who are inappropriately dressed in sagging trousers which expose their jockey shorts or other choice of underwear being worn. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ZOO BANS &#8216;SAGGY PANTS&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,186,178],"tags":[85,359],"class_list":["post-7375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","tag-abuse","tag-newsday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7378,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions\/7378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}