{"id":73334,"date":"2012-08-14T22:42:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T06:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17816"},"modified":"2012-08-14T22:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T06:42:39","slug":"quantify-honey-boo-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/14\/quantify-honey-boo-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantify \u2018Honey Boo Boo\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone without a television I tend to be aware of only <em><strong>&#8220;cultural phenomenon&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> level shows. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)\">Jersey Shore<\/a>, and of course <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sout_Park\">South Park<\/a>. \u00a0The past week something has impinged upon my consciousness, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/2012\/08\/15\/2136684\/honey-boo-boo-tours-warner-robins.html\">Honey Boo Boo<\/a>. I am quite willing to cede ground to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/08\/the-art-of-science\/\">humanists<\/a> in analyzing this new cultural phenomenon. Of course there is the issue that the young <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sayyid_Qutb\">Sayyid Qutb-<\/a>&#8216;s-to-be are watching this&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/O9QT6pUuaUY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone without a television I tend to be aware of only &#8220;cultural phenomenon&#8221; level shows. For example, Jersey Shore, and of course South Park. \u00a0The past week something has impinged upon my consciousness, Honey Boo Boo. I am quite willi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-honey-boo-boo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73334"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73422,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73334\/revisions\/73422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}