{"id":993,"date":"2006-08-25T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2006-08-25T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T04:52:00","slug":"judge-this-book-by-its-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/judge-this-book-by-its-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge this book by its cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick S. Lane was on <i>The Daily Show<\/i> last night hawking his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1591024277\/sr=8-1\/qid=1156473831\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-9792877-6912000?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Decency Wars<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read the book, and probably won&#8217;t until it&#8217;s out in paperback, so I can&#8217;t comment on its content. But I would like to poll the audience. Based on what the book is ostensibly about, what do you make of this, the cover?<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/decency.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1248\/288\/320\/decency.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting that breasts are shorthand for indecency. Or, I guess, shorthand for sex, which is indecent. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting, but not surprising. <\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick S. Lane was on The Daily Show last night hawking his book The Decency Wars. I haven&#8217;t read the book, and probably won&#8217;t until it&#8217;s out in paperback, so I can&#8217;t comment on its content. But I would like to poll the audience. Based on what the book is ostensibly about, what do you make of this, the cover? Interesting that breasts are shorthand for indecency. Or, I guess, shorthand for sex, which is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-g1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}