{"id":8311,"date":"2003-11-12T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=8311"},"modified":"2024-06-08T17:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T22:47:11","slug":"rise-of-the-culturally-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2003\/11\/12\/rise-of-the-culturally-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the culturally stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

*Sigh* Where do <\/em>these people come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Utah, Burger King has been forced to apologize<\/a> to a mother who breastfed her child in a restaurant. Yes, it is entirely legal to do so in that state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter what your stance is on gays, you’ve got to consider that putting up a statue commemorating Matthew Shepard’s death is pretty deplorable. Especially in his hometown. Especially when it pretty much laughs and says he went to hell. Especially when a reverand is behind it all. You can read about this pathetic miscreant imbecile and his sick plans here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evil Ned points us to a bit of revisionist<\/a> history at Time magazine. I’ve taken the liberty of using the Wayback Machine<\/a> to verify the story (this<\/a> is what I came up with).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Lynch suddenly realizes that she has been used<\/a> by the government (curiously after<\/em> her book came out). Go figure. I’ve heard enough rips on this gal from my brother to feel that I am unworthy of speaking out about how much a disservice this whole thing has been to her, us, and – more importantly – every other soldier that was captured, injured, or killed in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe we’re all working (or trying to find work) in the wrong fields. CBS has a story about the 10 most overpaid jobs<\/a> in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Sigh* Where do these people come from? In Utah, Burger King has been forced to apologize to a mother who breastfed her child in a restaurant. Yes, it is entirely legal to do so in that state. No matter what your stance is on gays, you’ve got to consider that putting up a statue commemorating Matthew Shepard’s death is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-idiots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}