{"id":1103,"date":"2015-09-11T16:14:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2015-11-11T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:56:18","slug":"newish-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"Newish stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/06\/fashion\/conducting-a-field-test-on-pheromones.html?_r=0\">wore pheromones for a month<\/a> to see if it would make me more attractive to members of the opposite sex? (I&#8217;m using a question mark there to connote deniability.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/26\/fashion\/when-your-dog-cat-pet-is-a-four-legged-peace-broker.html\">How some of use our pets<\/a> to conduct our relationships\/disputes with\/through.<\/p>\n<p>-Congratulations to Julie Schumacher  , the first woman to win the Thurber Prize (for her hilarious novel, &#8220;Dear Committee Members&#8221;). I got to host the awards ceremony, held at Caroline&#8217;s comedy club. Here&#8217;s an article about it from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/sep\/29\/julie-schumacher-writer-thurber-prize-first-woman\">Guardian<\/a>, and one from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/bookmarks\/2015\/08\/24\/at-last-a-woman-will-win-thurber-prize-for-american-humor\/\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-I recently wore pheromones for a month to see if it would make me more attractive to members of the opposite sex? (I&#8217;m using a question mark there to connote deniability.) &#8211;How some of use our pets to conduct our relationships\/disputes with\/through. -Congratulations to Julie Schumacher , the first woman to win the Thurber Prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}