{"id":50342,"date":"2013-08-13T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50342"},"modified":"2013-08-13T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T18:44:12","slug":"do-sex-scandals-make-us-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50342","title":{"rendered":"Do Sex Scandals Make Us Stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not interested in <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/08\/a-warning-from-1890-sex-scandals-make-us-stupid\/278617\/\">sex scandals<\/a>, you&#8217;re not interested in people, or do you claim you are interested in people except for when it comes to sex? If people don&#8217;t like talking about sex, they shouldn&#8217;t read the Bible or the Talmud or the rabbinic literature, which is saturated with discussions of sex, including intimate details of the lives of public figures. This obsession is built into the way all societies organize. Every society has sexual norms and to survive it must stigmatize those who break them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not interested in sex scandals, you&#8217;re not interested in people, or do you claim you are interested in people except for when it comes to sex? If people don&#8217;t like talking about sex, they shouldn&#8217;t read the Bible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50343,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50342\/revisions\/50343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}