{"id":48243,"date":"2016-01-08T04:38:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T04:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48243"},"modified":"2016-01-08T04:38:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T04:38:16","slug":"hipbones-believe-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48243","title":{"rendered":"Hipbone’s Believe it or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — how quickly language changes — with a Swiftian nibble chaser]
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From the story update<\/strong> to a 2013 CSM piece, upper panel<\/em> — oh! how true of so much in the modern mainstream media — with my more succinct 2016 phrasing below<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"SPEC<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

It’s good to know the editors at CSM<\/strong> are protecting their readers from a too-literal — perhaps one might say, fundamentalist — reading of their text.<\/p>\n

The headline of the story in question reads:<\/p>\n

Why do people want to eat babies? Scientists explain.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The subhead:<\/p>\n

Admit it: When presented with a baby, you’ve experienced a fleeting desire to eat it. Now science has an explanation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And better yet, the lead — some would say, lede:<\/p>\n

If you’re like most normal people, you’ve briefly considered eating a baby or two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

Jonathan Swift<\/strong> might have thought the editors too politcally correct for the necessities of the day, noting —<\/p>\n

A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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