{"id":145,"date":"2005-02-16T00:52:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T04:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/16\/those-would-scare-me-away\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T19:00:34","slug":"those-would-scare-me-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/16\/those-would-scare-me-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Those would scare me away"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Boob<\/p>\n

I can understand the idea that wearing very obvious security paraphenalia can be a deterrent to crime, I guess–but I can’t understand an instantiation of this concept that involves things that look like a combination of a Dalek<\/a> with the combat lingerie from The Linguini Incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s an image from the detail page<\/a> for one example of Existech’s “Domewear”<\/a> line. <\/p>\n

I’m trying to imagine a scenario where I would actually think wearing one of these things (not necessarily the bra of doom) would be a good idea.<\/p>\n

I’m coming up blank.<\/p>\n

I guess I could maybe use that IR Necklace Dome as a visual metaphor for the rise of the surveillance society, with a side comment on the loss of perspective about time, and a nod to a certain clock-wearing rapper, in my interpretive dance piece. Of course, that might not fit everyone’s notion of “a good idea”. <\/p>\n

It’s nice that they are willing to work with charities, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can understand the idea that wearing very obvious security paraphenalia can be a deterrent to crime, I guess–but I can’t understand an instantiation of this concept that involves things that look like a combination of a Dalek with the combat lingerie from The Linguini Incident. That’s an image from the detail page for one example of Existech’s “Domewear” line.… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-2l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}