{"id":48633,"date":"2015-03-02T01:54:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T01:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_dave_barry_the_greatest_party_generation\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T01:54:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T01:54:51","slug":"wsj_dave_barry_the_greatest_party_generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48633","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Dave Barry: The Greatest (Party) Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the list of things we\u2019re not supposed to do anymore gets longer all the time. I recently encountered an article headlined:<\/p>\n<p>IS YOUR HANDSHAKE AS DANGEROUS AS SMOKING?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, in case you are a complete idiot, is: Of course your handshake is as dangerous as smoking. The article explains that handshakes transmit germs, which cause diseases such as MERS. MERS stands for \u201cMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome,\u201d\u009d a fatal disease that may have originated in camels. This is yet another argument, as if we needed one, against shaking hands with camels. But the article suggests that we should consider not shaking hands with anybody.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/dave-barry-the-greatest-party-generation-1424965599?mod=trending_now_3\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the list of things we\u2019re not supposed to do anymore gets longer all the time. I recently encountered an article headlined: IS YOUR HANDSHAKE AS DANGEROUS AS SMOKING? The answer, in case you are a complete idiot, is: Of course<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48633\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,50,209,101,133,194,98,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-history","category-humor-trivia","category-marriage-family","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}