{"id":43485,"date":"2026-01-04T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43485"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:49:35","slug":"not-thinking-clearly-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/04\/not-thinking-clearly-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Thinking Clearly, Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; it is known, for example, that hurricanes tend to kill more people if they have feminine names, because they are perceived as less dangerous, meaning people are less likely to take adequate precautions.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26835752-200-why-do-we-feel-the-need-to-humanise-everything-from-dogs-to-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why do we feel the need to humanise everything, from dogs to cars?<\/a>&#8220;, <\/em>Elle Hunt in a book review<em>, <strong>NewScientist<\/strong> (27 December 2025, paywall)]<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose if we labeled them with numbers some folks would think that&#8217;s a severity rating; animal names, danger ratings; etc. Our tendency to look for hierarchies here in the West is either inborn or a product of society.<\/p>\n<p>And does it really need a re-think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheesh. &#8230; it is known, for example, that hurricanes tend to kill more people if they have feminine names, because they are perceived as less dangerous, meaning people are less likely to take adequate precautions. [&#8220;Why do we feel the need to humanise everything, from dogs to cars?&#8220;, Elle Hunt \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/04\/not-thinking-clearly-us\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43486,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43485\/revisions\/43486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}