{"id":584906,"date":"2022-03-28T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/584906\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:06:53","slug":"the-experiment-podcast-how-working-from-home-started-a-sweatpants-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/584906\/","title":{"rendered":"The Experiment Podcast: How Working From Home Started a Sweatpants Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W67HBgnUY3c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis episode was originally published on February 18, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>To mid-2000s celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, sweatpants were high fashion. To the likes of Jerry Seinfeld and Eva Mendes, they\u2019re a sign of defeat. And since the start of the pandemic, sweatpants have become perhaps more ubiquitous than ever. \u201cA lot of people who had been going to offices stopped going to offices for the foreseeable future,\u201d Amanda Mull, a staff writer for The Atlantic, says. \u201cI think people were forced to decide what it is they want to wear for this new circumstance they\u2019re in.\u201d In this episode of The Experiment, Mull and the host, Julia Longoria, trace sweatpants through U.S. history and debate an age-old question: Do they symbolize laziness, or freedom?<\/p>\n<p>Listen to The Experiment:<\/p>\n<p>Apple Podcasts: https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-experiment\/id1549704404 <\/p>\n<p>Spotify: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/64nFJEu758qByG5l6kqg6F?si=fybR7dgXRX2c5pINkWgKaA&#038;nd=1 <\/p>\n<p>Stitcher: https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/the-experiment-3 <\/p>\n<p>Google Podcasts: https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLndueWMub3JnL2V4cGVyaW1lbnRfcG9kY2FzdA <\/p>\n<p>In your web browser: https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/theexperimentpodcast?sid=youtube<\/p>\n<p>Further reading: https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/12\/america-loves-to-hate-sweatpants\/617324\/?utm_source=youtube&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=the-atlantic&#038;utm_content=podcast <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa8: Flo Dahm \/ Pexels<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfa5:  Nicole Blackwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode was originally published on February 18, 2021. To mid-2000s celebrities such as Paris Hilton and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":584907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[429712,429708,429700,429698,202772,240638,429704,429705,126752,18544,429709,429706,429707,429699,429711,429702,429710,429701,3435,429703],"class_list":{"0":"post-584906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-2000s-fashion","9":"tag-amanda-mull","10":"tag-athleisure","11":"tag-atlantic","12":"tag-coronavirus","13":"tag-coronavirus-pandemic","14":"tag-covid-athleisure","15":"tag-covid-fashion","16":"tag-covid-19","17":"tag-fashion","18":"tag-julia-longoria","19":"tag-return-to-office","20":"tag-rto","21":"tag-the-atlantic","22":"tag-the-experiment-podcast","23":"tag-wfh-sweats","24":"tag-wnyc","25":"tag-work-from-home-sweatpants","26":"tag-working","27":"tag-wtf-athleisure"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}