{"id":34,"date":"2005-11-21T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/rent-a-body\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T16:43:38","slug":"rent-a-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/rent-a-body\/","title":{"rendered":"rent a body"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 40px\">&quot;Everybody rents themselves in the marketplace,&quot; said Cao, a 31-year old Spanish conceptual artist. &quot;You work, and somebody pays you for it; there is no difference between that and prostitution.&quot; While questions about the body as a commodity are central to the &quot;company mission&quot; of Rent-A-Body, Cao is decidedly not in the business of carnal knowledge: sexual rentals of any kind are strictly prohibited. <\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\"> The agency, according to its promotional brochure, offers &quot;an up-to-date body. . . prepared to function as a living extension of your will.&quot; The prospective customer is promised &quot;an articulate, versatile human, in possession of a wide variety of mental and physical capabilities. . . for a reasonable hourly fee.&quot; If this sounds to you like a boutique-y version of Temps USA serfdom, you&#39;re on the right track. <\/p>\n<p>for the whole essay, go to:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stim.com\/Stim-x\/0696June\/Eyebot\/rentyerbody.html\">http:\/\/www.stim.com\/Stim-x\/0696June\/Eyebot\/rentyerbody.html<\/a><br \/>  thanks to margie for the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Everybody rents themselves in the marketplace,&quot; said Cao, a 31-year old Spanish conceptual artist. &quot;You work, and somebody pays you for it; there is no difference between that and prostitution.&quot; While questions about the body as a commodity are central to the &quot;company mission&quot; of Rent-A-Body, Cao is decidedly not in the business of carnal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,16],"tags":[175,11,173,174],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance-art","category-relational-aesthetics","tag-175","tag-conceptual-art","tag-rent-a-body","tag-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}