{"id":3079,"date":"2022-06-20T01:47:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:05","slug":"monday-musings-whats-it-like-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2022\/06\/20\/monday-musings-whats-it-like-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Musings: What&#8217;s it like in the USA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"reddit-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redditmedia.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/vfnxql\/whats_it_like_in_the_usa\/icwykwi\/?depth=1&amp;showmore=false&amp;embed=true&amp;showtitle=true&amp;showmedia=false&amp;theme=dark\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In case you can&#8217;t read the embedded <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/vfnxql\/whats_it_like_in_the_usa\/icwykwi\/\">link<\/a>, here&#8217;s what it says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything seems to be run by a bunch of 80yo senile assholes, and I don&#8217;t know why we&#8217;re just ok with all that.<\/p>\n<p>The entire government seems to be made up exclusively by either total racist dipshits or smarmy rat-fuck weasels. Neither group seems capable of actually doing anything except blaming the other group for everything.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the &#8220;republicrats&#8221; are really just one stupid broken thing, and I&#8217;d like to throw that thing in the fucking dumpster where it belongs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I can add anything to this comment. We need an entire reset because the American experiment is coming to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you can&#8217;t read the embedded link, here&#8217;s what it says: Everything seems to be run by a bunch of 80yo senile assholes, and I don&#8217;t know why we&#8217;re just ok with all that. The entire government seems to be made up exclusively by either total racist dipshits or smarmy rat-fuck weasels. Neither group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-musings","tag-politics"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}