{"id":14248,"date":"2012-10-18T10:18:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/10\/18\/14248.html"},"modified":"2012-10-18T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:18:40","slug":"the-incredible-case-of-the-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/10\/18\/the-incredible-case-of-the-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently happened across a bit of a great <cite>This American Life<\/cite> episode while driving, and later downloaded it and listened to the whole thing. Instead of their usual multiple-short-segments format, this episode is a single hour-long piece. It's totally worth listening to; if you haven't heard it, and if the title is sufficient to get you interested, here's a link: &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/447\/the-incredible-case-of-the-pi-moms\">The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms<\/a>.&rdquo; Tag line from the website: &ldquo;What do you get when you take a P.I. firm, then add in a bunch of sexy soccer moms, official sponsorship from Glock, a lying boss, and delusions of grandeur?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The whole story sounds like entertaining and mildly implausible fiction, but it's all true. It starts out with a reporter for <cite>Diablo<\/cite> magazine being asked by a private investigator to write a story about the P.I.'s approach, which had already been featured on a couple of major TV shows: he hired moms as P.I.s, because they were good investigators and easy to work with. The <cite>Diablo<\/cite> reporter goes on a ridealong to watch the moms in action, but before he can finish writing his article, he gets a mysterious email telling him that the whole thing was faked. And the story goes on from there, to get much weirder and more intense, with much higher stakes.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read the magazine article that the <cite>Diablo<\/cite> reporter wrote: &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diablomag.com\/Diablo-Magazine\/April-2011\/The-Setup\/\">The Setup<\/a>.&rdquo; It has some info and clarifications that aren't in the <cite>This American Life<\/cite> story, but I definitely recommend listening to the radio version first; there's a lot of amazing stuff that isn't in the <cite>Diablo<\/cite> story.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently happened across a bit of a great This American Life episode while driving, and later downloaded it and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-radio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}