{"article":{"__typename":"BlogArticle","id":"BlogArticle:6352","categories":[],"content":[{"__typename":"ArticleParagraphContent","subtype":null,"idAttr":"","innerHtml":"The Blastmaster on Fox News."},{"__typename":"ArticleLegacyHtml","tagName":"FIGURE","idAttr":"","className":"c-embedded-video","style":"","innerHtml":"

"}],"editorialProject":null,"primaryCategory":{"__typename":"Channel","displayName":"Culture","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/","slug":"culture"},"reviews":[],"embeds":[],"authors":[{"id":"Author:1298","displayName":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/","biography":{"default":"Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction.","__typename":"Biography"},"socialMedia":[],"__typename":"Author","slug":"ta-nehisi-coates"}],"preview":null,"layout":"standard","secondaryByline":"","dek":"","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/12/at-once-weird-and-yet-oddly-interesting/6352/","title":"At once weird and yet oddly interesting","seoTitle":"At once weird and yet oddly interesting","dateModified":"2008-12-01T19:04:58Z","datePublished":"2008-12-01T19:04:08Z","hasMeter":true,"primaryChannel":{"displayName":"Culture","__typename":"Channel","slug":"culture"},"shareImage1x1":null,"shareImage16x9":null,"shareImage4x3":null,"shareImageDefault":null,"shareImageSquareDefault":null,"shareImageLeadArt":null,"shareDek":"","shareText":null,"shareTitle":"At once weird and yet oddly interesting","editorsNote":null,"leadArt":null,"narratedAudio":null,"narratedAudioImage":null,"fbiaUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/facebook-instant/article/6352/","canonicalUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/12/at-once-weird-and-yet-oddly-interesting/6352/","syndication":"ALL","shareImage2x1":null,"shareImageSmall":null,"channels":[{"slug":"culture","__typename":"Channel"}],"watsonInfo":{"keywords":["Fox News","Blastmaster"],"__typename":"WatsonInfo"},"slug":"at-once-weird-and-yet-oddly-interesting","grapeshot":{"segments":["gt_positive","gt_positive_curiosity"],"__typename":"Grapeshot"},"advertisingInfo":{"disableHouseAd":false,"__typename":"AdvertisingInfo"}}}

Sections

The Print Edition