{"id":1042,"date":"2007-01-19T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T07:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/19\/perspective-sat-prep-fish-bicy\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T07:45:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T07:45:23","slug":"perspective-sat-prep-fish-bicy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/19\/perspective-sat-prep-fish-bicy\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective : SAT Prep :: Fish : Bicycle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I said previously, I get a lot of emails from people looking to promote their sites, and I do try to look at most of them. Yesterday&#8217;s batch included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eprep.com\/\">ePrep<\/a>, a site offering college preparation advice, and while I can&#8217;t speak for the quality of their services, they get a link for pointing me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tilcoweb.com\/\">these SAT prep shower curtains<\/a>. From the Amazon page, you get the chirpy description:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A simple, effective, and stress free learning tool for your children taking the SATs, allowing them to learn the basic SAT math concepts while taking a shower. Concepts include fractions, geometry, probability, and more!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right&#8211; why let your college-bound teen have a single stress-free moment? Study in the shower, too!<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, people, get a grip.<\/p>\n<p>(Though, actually, that suggests a marketing angle they could pursue&#8211; they could probably pitch these to some fundie &#8220;abstinence-only&#8221; group as a masturbation preventative. Because, really&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said previously, I get a lot of emails from people looking to promote their sites, and I do try to look at most of them. Yesterday&#8217;s batch included ePrep, a site offering college preparation advice, and while I can&#8217;t speak for the quality of their services, they get a link for pointing me&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/19\/perspective-sat-prep-fish-bicy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perspective : SAT Prep :: Fish : Bicycle?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}