{"id":628,"date":"2008-08-04T07:03:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T12:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=628"},"modified":"2008-08-04T07:03:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T12:03:56","slug":"please-tell-me-you-dont-teach-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/628","title":{"rendered":"Please Tell Me You Don&#039;t Teach Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/28\/business\/media\/28fridge.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1\">Indiana Jones and the Temple of Absurdly Implausible Excess<\/a> in the <em>NY Times<\/em> discusses &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/471\">Nuking the Fridge<\/a>,&#8221; the expression spawned from some inanity in the latest Indiana Jones flick.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jason Nicholl, a 37-year-old high school teacher who runs one of the sites, said he went to a message board shortly after the new \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d film was released and saw that the phrase had already caught on. He thought it was likely to be more than a passing fad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Jump the shark\u2019 is for people over the age of 60, who remember the show,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cnuke the fridge\u201d was a \u201cnew, fresh take.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, what?  <em>I<\/em> remember the show, and have a ways to go before I hit 60.  <em>Happy Days<\/em> ran from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Happy_Days\">1974-1984<\/a> and it literally and figuratively jumped the shark in 1977.  You don&#8217;t remember the show if you were born after 1948?  Nobody who was under the age of 26 when it first aired remembers the show?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Absurdly Implausible Excess in the NY Times discusses &#8220;Nuking the Fridge,&#8221; the expression spawned from some inanity in the latest Indiana Jones flick. Jason Nicholl, a 37-year-old high school teacher who runs one of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,31,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-movies","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}