{"id":1124,"date":"2007-02-14T08:03:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T08:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/14\/happy-valentines-day\/"},"modified":"2007-02-14T08:03:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T08:03:23","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/14\/happy-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <cite>Inside Higher Ed<\/cite>, Scott McLemee celebrates everybody&#8217;s favorite annoying holiday with <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/views\/2007\/02\/14\/mclemee\">a look at two scholars of sex<\/a>: the late Gershon Legman who coined &#8220;Make love, not war&#8221; back in 1963; and Blaise Cronin, who currently studies the more respectable sort of pornography at Indiana. Personally, I half think the real purpose may have been to give him the chance to write the sentence about Legman:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Any scholar publishing a book called <i>Oragentialism: Oral Techniques in Genital Excitation<\/i> may be said to have contributed something to the sum total of human happiness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>but there is a larger point, about the complicated place of sexual imagery in society. It&#8217;s got some silly aspects, but also some thought-provoking bits. Just the thing for a snowy Februrary, unless you happen to have access to a  copy of Legman&#8217;s magnum opus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Inside Higher Ed, Scott McLemee celebrates everybody&#8217;s favorite annoying holiday with a look at two scholars of sex: the late Gershon Legman who coined &#8220;Make love, not war&#8221; back in 1963; and Blaise Cronin, who currently studies the more respectable sort of pornography at Indiana. Personally, I half think the real purpose may&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/14\/happy-valentines-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/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":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","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=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}