{"id":1188,"date":"2006-04-14T08:08:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T13:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2006-04-14T08:09:23","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T13:09:23","slug":"bright-to-be-in-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/bright-to-be-in-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright to be in Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goth is good for you. (Unless you read the BBC version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8996\">the New Scientist story<\/a>). Compare the headlines: NS reads <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8996\">Goth subculture may protect vulnerable children<\/a><\/em> whilst BBC says fearfully <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/4905898.stm\">Goths &#8216;more likely to self-harm&#8217;<\/a><\/em>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/04\/13\/goth_subculture_may_.html\">Boing Boing.<\/a><br \/>\nKristina alerts us to another Goth Success thread based on a German dissertation reported in The Independent as  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/music\/features\/article352580.ece\">Don&#8217;t mock goths: future&#8217;s bright for the men and women in black<\/a><\/em> (Note that this is in the Enjoyment Section, but is Marilyn Mason really too mainstream for Goths?) and The Guardian as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,,1735535,00.html\">I have seen the future &#8211; and it&#8217;s goth<\/a><\/em> (includes the funny 10 telltale signs that your boss is a Goth).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goth is good for you. (Unless you read the BBC version of the New Scientist story). Compare the headlines: NS reads Goth subculture may protect vulnerable children whilst BBC says fearfully Goths &#8216;more likely to self-harm&#8217;. From Boing Boing. Kristina alerts us to another Goth Success thread based on a German dissertation reported in The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}