{"id":13177,"date":"2015-02-14T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=13177"},"modified":"2015-02-14T19:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T00:06:59","slug":"fifty-shades-of-puce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/fifty-shades-of-puce\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty shades of puce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did machines write <strong><em>Fifty Shades of <strike>Crap<\/strike> Grey<\/em><\/strong>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xwray.com\/fiftyshades\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perhaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those who missed it, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3030375\/dave-barry-50-shades-of-grey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Barry&#8217;s review of the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 Why was this book so incredibly popular? When so many women get so emotionally involved in a badly written, comically unrealistic porno yarn, what does this tell us? That women are basically insane? Yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dustbury<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tpsaye.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/14\/on-saint-valentine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robbo<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>A further depressing note: I spotted some &#8220;Fifty Shades&#8221; etc. wine this morning. Um, no thanks. (I <em>was<\/em> tempted to pick up a bottle of &#8220;Bourgeois Pig&#8221; on a different shelf for the sake of the label.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did machines write Fifty Shades of Crap Grey? Perhaps. For those who missed it, here&#8217;s Dave Barry&#8217;s review of the book. \u2026 Why was this book so incredibly popular? When so many women get so emotionally involved in a badly written, comically unrealistic porno yarn, what does this tell us? That women are basically insane? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/fifty-shades-of-puce\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fifty shades of puce&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3qx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13183,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177\/revisions\/13183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}