{"id":1547,"date":"2008-01-12T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/01\/12\/hot-if-and-only-if-fly\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T00:36:13","slug":"hot-if-and-only-if-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/hot-if-and-only-if-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot if and only if Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/is_mims_affirming_the_conseque.php#comments\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a> invokes interpretive charity to suggest that MIMS, in the nation&#8217;s number one single &#8220;This is Why I&#8217;m Hot,&#8221; is not guilty of affirming the consequent.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up analysis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/music\/0711,harvilla,76021,22.html\">Rob Harvilla<\/a> in the <em>Village Voice<\/em> analyzes the logical structure of the song&#8217;s argument.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/music\/0711,harvilla,76021,22.html\"><img class='center' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/harvilla4-dia.jpg' alt='harvilla4-dia.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t pass up the chance to click through; there are Venn diagrams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias invokes interpretive charity to suggest that MIMS, in the nation&#8217;s number one single &#8220;This is Why I&#8217;m Hot,&#8221; is not guilty of affirming the consequent. In a follow-up analysis, Rob Harvilla in the Village Voice analyzes the logical structure of the song&#8217;s argument. Don&#8217;t pass up the chance to click through; there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}