{"id":3896,"date":"2004-03-10T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2004-03-10T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2004-03-10T17:38:11","slug":"in_the_this_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3896","title":{"rendered":"In The &#8220;This is Surprising?&#8221; Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also in the &#8220;Best Headline Ever&#8221; Category.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#38;storyID=4538056\">Teens Pledging Sex Abstinence Often Fail-Study<\/a><\/h3>\n<p> Wed Mar 10, 2004 09:38 AM ET\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bc By Jon Hurdle<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. adolescents who pledge not to have sex until they are married have about the same rate of sexually transmitted diseases as other teenagers and they often fail to keep their pledge, according to a study released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The study of a nationally representative sample of about 15,000 youths aged 12 to 18 found that 88 percent of teenagers who pledged to remain virgins until they are married ended up having sex before marriage. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#38;storyID=4538056\">Reuters.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also in the &#8220;Best Headline Ever&#8221; Category. Teens Pledging Sex Abstinence Often Fail-Study Wed Mar 10, 2004 09:38 AM ET\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bc By Jon Hurdle PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. adolescents who pledge not to have sex until they are married have about the same rate of sexually transmitted diseases as other teenagers and they often fail to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}