{"id":1968,"date":"2010-06-01T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T10:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2010-06-01T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T10:23:09","slug":"must_you_perpetuate_the_stereo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/01\/must_you_perpetuate_the_stereo\/","title":{"rendered":"Must You Perpetuate the Stereotype?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scene from the park-and-ride lot at the train station this morning: a pretty but heavyset early-twenty-something woman, whose obvious black dye-job and purple eye shadow fairly screams &#8220;I shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hottopic.com\/hottopic\/Homepage.jsp\">Hot Topic<\/a>,&#8221; is sitting in her car. Her door is open, and one leg is extended outside, her shiny-black, patent-leather, stiletto-heeled shoe resting flat on the asphalt. It looks like she&#8217;s wearing lavender tights under her black jeans. She is seemingly spellbound by whatever she&#8217;s listening to on the stereo. It&#8217;s not music; it&#8217;s a male voice speaking. I&#8217;m thinking she doesn&#8217;t seem to be the NPR type, so an audiobook, perhaps. As I get closer, I pick up the speaker&#8217;s rhythm and enough individual words to confirm my theory. Definitely a story being told, definitely an audiobook.<\/p>\n<p>Then I hear two words in particular: &#8220;Bella&#8221; and &#8220;Edward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of <i>course<\/i>. I can&#8217;t help but snicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene from the park-and-ride lot at the train station this morning: a pretty but heavyset early-twenty-something woman, whose obvious black dye-job and purple eye shadow fairly screams &#8220;I shop at Hot Topic,&#8221; is sitting in her car. Her door is open, and one leg is extended outside, her shiny-black, patent-leather, stiletto-heeled shoe resting flat on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}