{"id":7050,"date":"2012-04-27T07:48:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/27\/links-for-2012-04-27\/"},"modified":"2012-04-27T07:48:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:48:37","slug":"links-for-2012-04-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/27\/links-for-2012-04-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-04-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/animalsdisappointed.tumblr.com\/'>Animals Disappointed in your College Performance<\/a>\n<p>This ostrich begs to differ with you. Grammar does matter.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.bostonreview.net\/BR37.3\/claude_s_fischer_loneliness_facebook.php'>Boston Review &#8212; Claude S. Fischer: The Loneliness Scare<\/a>\n<p>Social scientists have more precisely tracked Americans&#8217; isolation and reports of loneliness over the last several decades. The real news, they have discovered, is that there is no such epidemic; there isn&#8217;t even a meaningful trend. If we turned to historians to measure Americans&#8217; degree of isolation over the centuries, they would probably find periods of growing and lessening social connection. The rough evidence indicates a general decline in isolation. When you think back to, say, a century ago, don&#8217;t call up some nostalgic Our Town image (although alienation is a theme in that play). Picture more accurately the millions of immigrants and jobless, farm-less Americans trekking from one part of the country to another, out of touch with family and likely to be trekking again the next year.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals Disappointed in your College Performance This ostrich begs to differ with you. Grammar does matter. Boston Review &#8212; Claude S. Fischer: The Loneliness Scare Social scientists have more precisely tracked Americans&#8217; isolation and reports of loneliness over the last several decades. The real news, they have discovered, is that there is no such epidemic;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/27\/links-for-2012-04-27\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2012-04-27<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050","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=7050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}