{"id":213,"date":"2006-06-29T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/wordpress\/?p=213"},"modified":"2006-06-29T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T06:01:00","slug":"pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/pop-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was happily immersed in popular culture as a child. As a young adult, I viewed it with a somewhat arch and ironic eye. Now it just makes me queasy. I feel totally violated at the grocery store by all the magazine covers shrieking at me, every one of them with Jen &#038; Brad &#038; Angelina and now the baby, with Britney, with that horror show Jessica Simpson and her oaf Nick Lachey.<\/p>\n<p>Today it&#8217;s one Star Jones. Who exactly is this Star Jones? How did she become famous? What can we do at this point to put a stop to it? Seriously. Queasy.<\/p>\n<p>(Later, the Television column in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2144791\/?nav=tap3\">Slate<\/a><\/em> handily recounts, and therein I learn, the history of this show called <em>The View<\/em> on ABC daytime, whence rose this particular Star.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was happily immersed in popular culture as a child. As a young adult, I viewed it with a somewhat arch and ironic eye. Now it just makes me queasy. I feel totally violated at the grocery store by all the magazine covers shrieking at me, every one of them with Jen &#038; Brad &#038; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/pop-culture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pop Culture<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}