{"id":23453,"date":"2017-09-07T20:32:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=23453"},"modified":"2017-09-07T20:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:32:47","slug":"lifestyle-the-origin-of-tin-foil-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-the-origin-of-tin-foil-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle: the origin of &#8220;tin foil hat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring, the origins of common phrases can make fun topics. The tutor shares the origin of &#8220;tin foil hat&#8221;.<\/h1>\n<p>A couple of years back, someone described a conspiracy theorist to me as &#8220;a tin-foil-hat guy&#8230;when he&#8217;s not dead right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I surmised what tin foil hat must mean, having never heard it. I thought it a funny, charming phrase, but wondered about its origin. Since then, I seem to hear it often.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing a tin foil hat suggests paranoia. It derives from the fictional premise that wearing a metal hat can prevent thought-detection.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/origin-of-the-term-tin-foil-hat-2013-6\">www.businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring, the origins of common phrases can make fun topics. The tutor shares the origin of &#8220;tin foil hat&#8221;. A couple of years back, someone described a conspiracy theorist to me as &#8220;a tin-foil-hat guy&#8230;when he&#8217;s not dead right.&#8221; I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-the-origin-of-tin-foil-hat\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle: the origin of &#8220;tin foil hat&#8221;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,181],"tags":[2482],"class_list":["post-23453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-lifestyle","tag-where-did-tin-foil-hat-come-from"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23453"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23476,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453\/revisions\/23476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}