{"id":14318,"date":"2012-12-29T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T00:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/12\/29\/14318.html"},"modified":"2012-12-29T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T00:50:40","slug":"not-the-scorpion-and-the-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/12\/29\/not-the-scorpion-and-the-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the scorpion and the frog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I liked this bit from <cite>The Good Wife<\/cite> (season 1, ep 14, &ldquo;Hi&rdquo;):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Cary<\/b>: I can't help it, you know, being competitive, it's just me.<\/p>\n<p><b>Alicia<\/b>: Oh, nononono. Not the scorpion and the frog story, please.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cary<\/b>: [Laughs.] The scorpion on the frog's back, yeah, I hate that story too. Why do people tell it so much?<\/p>\n<p><b>Alicia<\/b>: Because it excuses people's behavior.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this bit from The Good Wife (season 1, ep 14, &ldquo;Hi&rdquo;): Cary: I can&#8217;t help it, you know,&#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":[48,18,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","category-humor","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318","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=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}