{"id":443,"date":"2002-07-14T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2002-07-14T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=443"},"modified":"2004-10-24T23:29:39","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T07:29:39","slug":"muppet-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"muppet mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIV comes to Sesame Street, and <a href=http:\/\/timblair.blogspot.com\/2002_07_07_timblair_archive.html#78870499>Tim Blair wonders how<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHow will the character&#8217;s contraction of the disease be explained? Sharing a needle with Oscar in his squalid street dwelling? Sex can be ruled out &#8212; Muppets don&#8217;t have genitals.<\/p>\n<p>A blood transfusion doesn&#8217;t make sense; where would any donated Muppet blood come from? Each Muppet is the only living example of its species. The fluid oozing through Big Bird&#8217;s avian veins is unlikely to sustain whatever the hell Elmo is.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV comes to Sesame Street, and Tim Blair wonders how: How will the character&#8217;s contraction of the disease be explained? Sharing a needle with Oscar in his squalid street dwelling? Sex can be ruled out &#8212; Muppets don&#8217;t have genitals. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=443\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}