{"id":3844,"date":"2010-10-11T01:20:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T05:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:24:36","slug":"aside-perverted-secretions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/aside-perverted-secretions\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: Perverted Secretions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah and I recently made our way through the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewartandriddell.co.uk\/barnaby\/index.php\">Barnaby Grimes<\/a> book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Barnaby-Grimes-Curse-Night-Wolf\/dp\/0385751257\">Curse Of The Night Wolf<\/a>. We quite enjoyed it and will probably seek out others, by the way. However, I had to do some deep background explanations on the concept of the various quack medicinal tonics of the time period, as Sarah isn&#8217;t really up on her historical snake oil salesmen. I was able to do it, with some helpful reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076538\/\">Pete&#8217;s Dragon<\/a>, but it took some explaining. When I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/2228472.html\">this vintage ad for Melachol<\/a>, my immediate thought was to show it to her as an illustration of the concept. Fortunately my parenting brain did kick in before I did that, and suggested to me that I might be better off not having to explain &#8220;functional impotence&#8221;, &#8220;irregularities of menstruation&#8221;, or &#8220;perverted secretions&#8221; at this time. (Actually, I&#8217;m not sure I could explain that last one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Sarah and I recently made our way through the first Barnaby Grimes book: Curse Of The Night Wolf. We quite enjoyed it and will probably seek out others, by the way. However, I had to do some deep background explanations on the concept of the various quack medicinal tonics of the time period, as Sarah isn&#8217;t really up on her&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/aside-perverted-secretions\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[331,8],"tags":[458,111,171,182],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-books","tag-books","tag-parenting","tag-sarah","tag-vintage-advertising","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-100","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","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=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}