{"id":15394,"date":"2017-06-01T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15394"},"modified":"2017-06-01T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:16:28","slug":"teenagers-werent-invented-until-the-1940s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/teenagers-werent-invented-until-the-1940s\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers Weren\u2019t Invented Until The 1940s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060117_1214_TeenagersWe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ben Cosgrove examined an invention that, 70 years later, remains controversial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up until the second world war you were either a child or an adult.<\/li>\n<li>Then in 1944 Life published an article titled &#8220;Teen-Age Girls: They Live in a Wonderful World of Their Own&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>It spoke about a special time in an individual&#8217;s life preoccupied by fashion, parties, and boys \u2013 before they were sent off to war.<\/li>\n<li>The article noted that teens were a lucrative and unique market for businesses to target.<\/li>\n<li>It was a success. &#8220;Teen-agers&#8221; soon turned into teenagers and became firmly rooted in the general conscience as a distinct group of people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3639041\/the-invention-of-teenagers-life-and-the-triumph-of-youth-culture\/\">Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_24591_7-things-you-didnt-realize-humans-recently-invented.html\">Cracked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Cosgrove examined an invention that, 70 years later, remains controversial: Up until the second world war you were either a child or an adult. Then in 1944 Life published an article titled &#8220;Teen-Age Girls: They Live in a Wonderful World of Their Own&#8221;. It spoke about a special time in an individual&#8217;s life preoccupied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060117_1214_TeenagersWe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15397,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions\/15397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}