{"id":526201,"date":"2010-04-13T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2010-04-13T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:04:40","slug":"scene-from-the-parlor-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526201","title":{"rendered":"Scene from The Parlor | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was at a bar with my new friend Adam discussing emo music and whether it emerged out of Seattle grunge or something else altogether. Personally I can appreciate Bright Eyes once in a while, but on the whole I just don&#8217;t get it. About the time I suspect we&#8217;re approaching a shift to 70s punk&#8211;which I can really get into&#8211;it happens&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;So I googled you. Science, eh?&#8221; Adam grins. Here we go again. &#8220;Uh, yeah.&#8221; &#8220;I gotta ask. Climate change. Prove yourself. Make me believe.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd it starts&#8230; You see, I&#8217;m used to this challenge. Climate change might as well be the Yankees vs the Sox. It&#8217;s a pub conversation about who&#8217;s &#8216;winning&#8217; when everyone is really loses unless we act. And I can already tell Adam&#8217;s a bright guy. He&#8217;s a skeptical thinker who doesn&#8217;t have access to journal articles, but does hear the news media fallout. He&#8217;s got a lot of questions about so-called email conspiracies, but at least he&#8217;s interested in a discussion. So we have another drink and I tell him a little more about what&#8217;s going on in oceans, on land, and in the atmosphere. He listens politely, and soon we&#8217;re back to Kurt Cobain.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5P2NKodapXrc4_sMoLXsU22rAsY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5P2NKodapXrc4_sMoLXsU22rAsY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5P2NKodapXrc4_sMoLXsU22rAsY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5P2NKodapXrc4_sMoLXsU22rAsY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/4TKZ8Xc7pv8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was at a bar with my new friend Adam discussing emo music and whether it emerged out of Seattle grunge or something else altogether. Personally I can appreciate Bright Eyes once in a while, but on the whole I just don&#8217;t get it. About the time I suspect we&#8217;re approaching a shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}