{"id":81,"date":"2008-04-02T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T02:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/04\/02\/the-bowling-metaphor-lives-on\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T20:15:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T02:15:43","slug":"the-bowling-metaphor-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/04\/02\/the-bowling-metaphor-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The bowling metaphor lives on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/02\/politics\/fromtheroad\/entry3988789.shtml\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/files\/2008\/04\/24815360_18174dee30_m.jpg\" alt=\"24815360_18174dee30_m.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>CBS news<\/a> recently reprinted a quotation from Hillary Clinton&#8217;s discussion with reporters after jokingly challenging Barack Obama to a &#8216;bowl off.&#8217; Clinton references Robert Putnam&#8217;s work on &#8216;bowling alone&#8217; as a way of expressing our highly isolated social interactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBowling alone you know, this is a big sociological phenomenon, bowling alone is a sign of our times, we could bring it back we could like transform the entire society. People would start joining leagues again they would feel a sense of community a sense of togetherness, exactly, bowling alleys everywhere on every corner, people setting pins again. End the automation, get the pin boy, there is no telling what could happen!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS news recently reprinted a quotation from Hillary Clinton&#8217;s discussion with reporters after jokingly challenging Barack Obama to a &#8216;bowl off.&#8217; Clinton references Robert Putnam&#8217;s work on &#8216;bowling alone&#8217; as a way of expressing our highly isolated social interactions. \u201cBowling alone you know, this is a big sociological phenomenon, bowling alone is a sign of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39112,39115],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-culture","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}