{"id":96,"date":"2005-07-29T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/07\/29\/a-mid-day-musing-from-just-another-yup"},"modified":"2005-07-29T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T20:18:07","slug":"a-mid-day-musing-from-just-another-yuppie-fck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/07\/29\/a-mid-day-musing-from-just-another-yuppie-fck\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mid-day Musing from Just Another Yuppie F*ck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a845'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the word &#8220;hipster&#8221; became an insult long before Old Navy began selling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andrewcoulterenright\/23866900\">&#8220;Williamsburg&#8221; tee-shirts<\/a>, this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/printedition\/calendar\/cl-et-antihip20jul20,0,2499896.story?coll=cl-calendar\"> L.A. Times article<\/a><br \/>\nabout the new trend involving how the pursuit of cool is now uncool<br \/>\nreeks of bad reporting.&nbsp; Almost everyone interviewed in the<br \/>\narticle is in the mid-30s to early-40s age range.&nbsp; Yes, people<br \/>\ngrow old, they grow tired. Of course they give up the carefully<br \/>\ncultivated consumeristic disaffectedness of youth.&nbsp; That&#8217;s the<br \/>\nwhole point of getting to 35.&nbsp; It&#8217;s wrong to twist this to<br \/>\nannounce an entirely new cultural trend against cool.<\/p>\n<p>And I will repeat this for the record (even though it went on the record in 2002), hipsters are dead.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and for this week&#8217;s international affairs update, let&#8217;s focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/agenda\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4220850\">Mali<\/a>, the tiny African country where one of my college roommates completed his Peace Corps stint.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2005\/07\/29\/state\/n161943D30.DTL&amp;type=science\">Another planet<\/a>?&nbsp; The 10th Planet would be a cool band name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the word &#8220;hipster&#8221; became an insult long before Old Navy began selling &#8220;Williamsburg&#8221; tee-shirts, this L.A. Times article about the new trend involving how the pursuit of cool is now uncool reeks of bad reporting.&nbsp; Almost everyone interviewed in the article is in the mid-30s to early-40s age range.&nbsp; Yes, people grow old, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}