{"id":15252,"date":"2012-05-27T11:11:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2012-05-27T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T16:11:48","slug":"the-anatomy-of-the-standard-kids-these-days-moral-freak-out-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/27\/the-anatomy-of-the-standard-kids-these-days-moral-freak-out-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The anatomy of the standard &#8220;kids these days&#8221; moral freak-out story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/27\/5-great-teen-sex-drugs-freakouts-rainbow\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Gillespie<\/a> explains what the next media meme intended to alarm parents will look like (because they all do):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t you dare think just because no one is actually doing something that it&#8217;s not about to become the next big thing: &#8220;Although there&#8217;s only been a few cases, county public health toxicology expert Cyrus Rangan says it could signal a dangerous trend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hand-sanitizer story is a classic of the particularly powerful news narrative that might be called &#8220;The Kids These Days&#8221; story. The recipe is as simple as it is intoxicating: Take kids, a wholesome product or activity (cleanser, say, or a sleepover), throw in drugs, booze, or sex (preferably all three), some form of vaguely scary technology (teh Interwebz, cell phones), and shake vigorously (like Mentos in a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi, or maybe Pop Rocks with a Coca-Cola chaser), and let it rip!<\/p>\n<p>While we await the next fake news trend about teens and sex and drugs &mdash; and the coming federal ban on so-called bath salts and fake marijuana &mdash; here are five classic freakouts to contemplate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Gillespie explains what the next media meme intended to alarm parents will look like (because they all do): Don&#8217;t you dare think just because no one is actually doing something that it&#8217;s not about to become the next big thing: &#8220;Although there&#8217;s only been a few cases, county public health toxicology expert Cyrus Rangan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,28,53],"tags":[424,322,213,375,504,101],"class_list":["post-15252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-media","category-politics","tag-morality","tag-nannystate","tag-newspapers","tag-parents","tag-teenagers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Y0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15254,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions\/15254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}