{"id":891,"date":"2003-02-12T23:51:16","date_gmt":"2003-02-13T07:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/02\/12\/891.html"},"modified":"2003-02-12T23:51:16","modified_gmt":"2003-02-13T07:51:16","slug":"obvious-stated-film-at-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/02\/12\/obvious-stated-film-at-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Obvious stated; film at 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Doesn't this look like an <cite>Onion<\/cite> headline?  \"<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2003\/02\/0212_030212_rightkiss.html\">Most People Kiss the Right Way, Study Finds<\/a>.\"  But in actuality it's a <cite>National Geographic<\/cite> story; the title is a weak pun, and the story's actually about the fact that most people turn their heads to the right when they kiss.  (\"Right-handed\" doesn't seem quite right when describing non-hand parts of the body; can we adapt the grand word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?chirality\">chirality<\/a> to mean \"handedness\" in normal use?)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Donald Rumsfeld wants to Do the Right Thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"Any time there's threats that are perceived, the prudent thing to do is to take steps that seem to be appropriate,\" Rumsfeld said at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(That from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/1576\/3650347.html\"><cite>Star Tribune<\/cite> article<\/a>.)  Yeah, I have to agree that it would be imprudent to not take the steps that seem to be appropriate.  Or to take the steps that seem to be inappropriate.  Whichever.<\/p>\n<p>(But presumably it's fine to take the steps that seem to be inappropriate whenever there are threats that aren't perceived, or whenever there aren't threats that are perceived.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#8217;t this look like an Onion headline? &#8220;Most People Kiss the Right Way, Study Finds.&#8221; But in actuality it&#8217;s a&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}