{"id":37,"date":"2010-10-31T22:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T02:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/?p=37"},"modified":"2010-10-31T22:21:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T02:21:28","slug":"here-are-three-ways-we-can-punch-up-your-sunday-styles-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/2010\/10\/31\/here-are-three-ways-we-can-punch-up-your-sunday-styles-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are Three Ways We Can Punch Up Your Sunday Styles Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/We-could-link-to-it-here-but-then-that-would-only-encourage-them\">an article in today&#039;s Sunday Styles section<\/a> called &#034;The Great Unwashed,&#034; a trend piece in which the author somehow tracked down at least three people who don&#039;t bathe everyday and who are willing to be quoted in the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you think this kind of contrarianism is dated, a vestige of oughts-era American culture. Personally, I think it&#039;s fantastic to see quicker nostalgia. It&#039;s like it&#039;s 2003 again, and I&#039;m reading Christopher Hitchens in Slate &#8212; on a computer monitor! &#8212; and I find myself nodding in agreement, maybe even <em>vigorously<\/em> nodding in agreement, about just how low the Axis of Weasel can go.<\/p>\n<p>That said, here are three ways this really, really great trend piece could have been a really, really, really great trend piece:<\/p>\n<p>1) <strong>An Economy Angle<\/strong>: Some people &#8212; OK, one person &#8212; don&#039;t shower for environmental reasons, but isn&#039;t there anyone out there who has cut back on buying deodorant because it&#039;s a luxury item? Everyone&#039;s feeling the pain; that part writes itself.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Limited &#034;Scope&#034;<\/strong>: Why stop at showering and deodorant?  I bet there are a lot of people out there &#8212; three, at least! &#8212; who have eschewed brushing their teeth, as well. This would be fascinating to try to understand.<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Missing &#034;To Be Sure&#034; Paragraph<\/strong>: I like the idea of legitimizing the concerns of those who worry that they&#039;re going to get cancer from aluminum, but whatever happened to good old &#034;I&#039;m lazy and don&#039;t give a fuck&#034;? The piece feels like it&#039;s missing that extra oomph a real dirty dude could provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an article in today&#039;s Sunday Styles section called &#034;The Great Unwashed,&#034; a trend piece in which the author somehow tracked down at least three people who don&#039;t bathe everyday and who are willing to be quoted in the newspaper. Maybe you think this kind of contrarianism is dated, a vestige of oughts-era American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[79,80,77,78],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broken-link","tag-contrarianism","tag-personal-hygiene","tag-sunday-styles","tag-trend-piece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}