{"id":1037,"date":"2016-10-31T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2016-10-31T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T17:31:38","slug":"joel-best-on-the-creepy-clown-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2016\/10\/31\/joel-best-on-the-creepy-clown-craze\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Best on the Creepy Clown Craze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the country, sightings of people dressed as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2016_clown_sightings\">creepy clowns<\/a>\u201d standing in forests, on roads, in doorways has exploded and captured part of the national imagination. A lot of people were unsure what to make of this odd development. Some call it a clown \u201cinvasion\u201d, some call it a clown \u201cuprising\u201d, and some call it the \u201cGreat Clown Scare\u201d\u2014 yet most agree that it is indeed <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/12\/26\/what-is-creepiness\/\">creepy<\/a>. In this episode, guest host Ryan Larson talks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soc.udel.edu\/people\/faculty\/joelbest\">University of Delaware professor Joel Best<\/a>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520274709\">Damned Lies and Statistics<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/webad.aspx?id=4294969244\">Social Problems<\/a>. This conversations focuses on the context of the recent clown sightings around the nation, and how they connect to other popular mythologies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH125_Best.mp3\">Download Office Hours #125<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the country, sightings of people dressed as \u201ccreepy clowns\u201d standing in forests, on roads, in doorways has exploded and captured part of the national imagination. A lot of people were unsure what to make of this odd development. Some call it a clown \u201cinvasion\u201d, some call it a clown \u201cuprising\u201d, and some call it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[28514,28513,15,3882,175],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-clowns","tag-creepiness","tag-culture","tag-mythology","tag-sociology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2016\/10\/OH-Album-Art.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}