{"id":13289,"date":"2008-09-17T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13289"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:43:47","slug":"what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-mad-cow-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/17\/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-mad-cow-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"What we talk about when we talk about mad-cow disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed a number of bloggers linking recently to the amusing McSweeney’s<\/i> article “Selections from H. P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter,”<\/a> but I prefer the magazine’s piece that spoofs my favorite Raymond Carver short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out “What We Talk About When We Talk About Mad-Cow Disease,”<\/a> by Steve Lohse:<\/p>\n

Dan, Cheryl, and Clare were all vegetarians once but not anymore. We were having a barbecue. Dan and I were standing by the grill while Cheryl and my wife, Clare, were up on the patio, talking.<\/p>\n

“The only thing that makes me sad about veal is when it’s overcooked,” I said. I was trying hard to be funny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed a number of bloggers linking recently to the amusing McSweeney’s article “Selections from H. P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter,” but I prefer the magazine’s piece that spoofs my favorite Raymond Carver short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” Check out “What We Talk About When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13291,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions\/13291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}