{"id":533,"date":"2008-06-10T17:01:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=533"},"modified":"2008-06-10T17:01:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T21:01:25","slug":"need-i-know-more-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/need-i-know-more-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Need I Know More? No."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I saw a news headline:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bjork&#8217;s mother ends hunger strike<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I really didn&#8217;t want to know anymore. Just felt like that was enough. Sure, it could have been some <em>other <\/em>Bjork, but I assumed it was the weird Icelandik music chick. Many reasons why her mother would have started a hunger strike, and more reason that she could have gone off same. But, really, why dig any deeper? Just bound to disappoint. So I didn&#8217;t click through and read the story. Never did. Still don&#8217;t know really.<\/p>\n<p>Saw another one today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Eldest child in Austrian incest case wakes from coma<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me ask you, did you know that there was some sort of Austrian incest case? (<em>Austrian<\/em>, mind you. Let&#8217;s try to keep them straight, shall we?) And that said Austrian incest case involved a minimum of three children? (If there were only two, then there&#8217;d be an eld<em>er<\/em> and a young<em>er<\/em>. No eld<em>est<\/em> involved.) And of those three or more children, at least one was in a coma? (I&#8217;d think that if it were only the one child in a coma, the headline could simply have declared <em>Child wakes from coma<\/em> rather than <em>Eldest child wakes from coma<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Did you know all this? Me neither. What the fuck kind of freaky shit is going on in Austria?<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me now that there are similarities between these two headlines. Both describe events occurring in Europe. Both as well describe some condition that a European individual <em>was <\/em>in, but is now no longer in said condition. I wonder why these catch my attention so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I saw a news headline: Bjork&#8217;s mother ends hunger strike And I really didn&#8217;t want to know anymore. Just felt like that was enough. Sure, it could have been some other Bjork, but I assumed it was the weird Icelandik music chick. Many reasons why her mother would have started a hunger strike, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/need-i-know-more-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Need I Know More? No.<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}