{"id":1949,"date":"2002-02-28T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2002-02-28T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2002-02-28T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2002-02-28T18:57:20","slug":"explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/02\/28\/explainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate has a regular (well, actually more of an <i>irregular<\/i>) column entitled <a href=''>Explainer<\/a>, which is kind of a political <a href='http:\/\/www.straightdope.com'>Straight Dope<\/a> with half the wit but three  times the relevance.  Recent columns have tackled such questions as <a href='http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/toolbar.aspx?id=2062607'>Can the Phrase &#8216;Let&#8217;s Roll!&#8217; Be Trademarked?<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/toolbar.aspx?id=2061972'>Why Do We Have A Fifth Amendment?<\/a>, and <a href='http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/toolbar.aspx?id=2059906'>What Happens To Your Confiscated Nailclippers?<\/a>  An archive of Explainer columns can be found <a href='http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=3944&#038;QueryText=\"Explainer\"&#038;SearchOn=Department'>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Slate carries another column called <a href='http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=3944&#038;QueryText=\"Medical+Examiner\"&#038;SearchOn=Department'>Medical Examiner<\/a>, which is essential just Explainer set in a hospital.  <a href='http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/toolbar.aspx?id=2062577'>Today&#8217;s entry<\/a> is riveting, and documents the growing evidence that children can acquire Obsessive\/Compulsive Disorder and Tourette&#8217;s syndrome from that most ubiquitous of childhood ailments, strep throat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate has a regular (well, actually more of an irregular) column entitled Explainer, which is kind of a political Straight Dope with half the wit but three times the relevance. Recent columns have tackled such questions as Can the Phrase &#8216;Let&#8217;s Roll!&#8217; Be Trademarked?, Why Do We Have A Fifth Amendment?, and What Happens To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}