{"id":15394,"date":"2012-06-06T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15394"},"modified":"2012-12-17T08:36:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T13:36:32","slug":"qotd-those-demon-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/qotd-those-demon-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Those demon drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As &#8220;Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber&#8221; in an old <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/saturday-night-live\/video\/theodoric-of-york\/2888\" target=\"_blank\">sketch<\/a>, Steve Martin tells a patient&#8217;s father that people once foolishly believed disease was caused by demonic possession, but &#8220;nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in her stomach.&#8221; Likewise, whereas people used to think the devil was the source of evil, today we know that drugs are \u2014 even if we&#8217;re not sure which drugs, or whether a particular criminal has actually consumed them. <\/p>\n<p>Jacob Sullum, <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/06\/06\/the-devil-in-rudy-eugene\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Devil in Rudy Eugene: The &#8220;Miami Cannibal&#8221; story reflects our perennial readiness to believe that drugs make people do evil.&#8221;, <em>Reason<\/em><\/a>, 2012-06-06<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As &#8220;Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber&#8221; in an old Saturday Night Live sketch, Steve Martin tells a patient&#8217;s father that people once foolishly believed disease was caused by demonic possession, but &#8220;nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in [&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":[7,57,41],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-15394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-drugs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-40i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394","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=15394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18198,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions\/18198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}