I was going through the checkout at the store on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The woman at the till, wearing a hijab <\/em>scarf but speaking with a Minnesota accent, pointed at the package of bologna. “Could you pick it up and put it in the bag for me?”<\/p>\n “Huh?”<\/p>\n “It’s pork. I can’t touch pork”, she said, smiling. “Can you…”<\/p>\n I thought about responding “No, it’s plastic.\u00a0 You can touch plastic, ya?”<\/p>\n I thought, then again, about asking “you do <\/em>realize that it’s just a tiny little film of overdramatic imams<\/em> in Minneapolis that are knotted up about check-out girls touching pork products swathed in blisterpak, right?” I was going through the checkout at the store on Sunday. The woman at the till, wearing a hijab scarf but speaking with a Minnesota accent, pointed at the package of bologna. “Could you pick it up and put it in the bag for me?” “Huh?” “It’s pork. I can’t touch pork”, she said, smiling. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI shrugged, and picked up the package. She scanned it, and I put it in the bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"