{"id":2449,"date":"2008-07-15T22:38:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T05:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2008-07-16T07:59:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:59:32","slug":"bat-to-bra-in-three-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/bat-to-bra-in-three-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat to bra in three sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/subjects\/WeeklyReview\">Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/a> connects dots in their weekly emails. An unaltered paragraph from their latest digest:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2450 aligncenter\" title=\"batstobras\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/batstobras.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe British retailer Marks &amp; Spencer defended a policy of charging extra for bras that are bigger than size DD, saying the charge represented &#8220;a small premium for [necessary] specialist work,&#8221; while the protest group Busts 4 Justice derided the price increase as an unfair tax. A British teenager who assumed that tremors in her bosom were caused by her vibrating mobile phone found a baby bat nestling in the padding of her 34FF bra. The World Health Organization warned people not to go into Ugandan bat caves after a Dutch tourist died from the Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/bat-to-bra-in-three-sentences\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love how Harper\u2019s Weekly connects dots in their weekly emails. An unaltered paragraph from their latest digest: \u201cThe British retailer Marks &amp; Spencer defended a policy of charging extra for bras that are bigger than size DD, saying the charge represented &#8220;a small premium for [necessary] specialist work,&#8221; while the protest group Busts 4 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/bat-to-bra-in-three-sentences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bat to bra in three sentences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/bat-to-bra-in-three-sentences\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}