{"id":2961,"date":"2010-09-05T18:35:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T23:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2010-09-05T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T23:37:06","slug":"tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/09\/05\/tidbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) The recession is hitting Black college grads harder than it is hitting White college grads.  I guess post-racial America will have to wait.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e20133f30c74f0970b-550wi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/andrewsullivan\/rApM\/~3\/a04jF0g2neg\/click.phdo\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2) <a href=\"http:\/\/epiphenom.fieldofscience.com\/2010\/08\/praying-for-abstinence.html\">A recent study<\/a> found that those who pray\\ regularly are less likely to drink than those who simply focus on &#8220;good thoughts.&#8221;  Three cheers for ritual!  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigquestionsonline.com\/blogs\/heather-wax\/does-prayer-prevent-drinking\">Big Questions Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3) A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/culture\/forgiveness-resentment-and-blood-sugar-20765\">study summarized in Miller-McCune<\/a> People with symptoms of Type-II diabetes are less inclined to &#8220;forgive others&#8221; than those without.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) The recession is hitting Black college grads harder than it is hitting White college grads. I guess post-racial America will have to wait. Via Andrew Sullivan 2) A recent study found that those who pray\\ regularly are less likely to drink than those who simply focus on &#8220;good thoughts.&#8221; Three cheers for ritual! Via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}