{"id":24549,"date":"2011-11-28T05:42:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T11:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24549"},"modified":"2012-01-04T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:27:30","slug":"sustainable-train-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24549","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Train Of Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know I&#8217;m a clairvoyant?<\/p>\n<p>Either did anyone else!<\/p>\n<p>SCENE: \u00a0Tanya Grumpleman-Morriss, 21, a Grievance Studies major at Bard College, is making her new sign for the next day&#8217;s &#8220;Occupy&#8221; Rally. \u00a0The entire scene takes place in her head.<\/p>\n<p>GRUMPLEMAN-MORRISS: <em>My last sign was such a success&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/files\/2011\/11\/110511_3221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<em>I need to come up with something equally catchy, profound and cogent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GRUMPLEMAN-MORRISS rips a big square out of a box for a big-screen TV.<\/p>\n<p>GRUMPLEMAN-MORRISS: \u00a0<em>Hm. \u00a0It&#8217;s a beautiful night. \u00a0The stars are like crystals. \u00a0Hm. \u00a0There we go! \u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s a Crystal Night for the 1%&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>She scibbles the saying frantically onto the sign. \u00a0Then she goes to the dorm fridge and grabs a Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>GRUMPLEMAN-MORRISS: (quaffing the Red Bull) \u00a0 <em>Hmm. \u00a0I&#8217;m on a roll. \u00a0What else? \u00a0I&#8217;m so tired of having to worry about the future. \u00a0We need to come up with a&#8230;a final solution! \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>She frantically tears out another square from a Macintosh box.<\/p>\n<p>GRUMPLEMAN-MORRISS: &#8221;\u00a0<em>We need a Final Solution to rebalance our society!&#8221; \u00a0<\/em>(Whispers sotto voce): <em>Perfect!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>She gets up and makes a cup of coffee with one of those Keurig individual coffee makers.<\/p>\n<p>GRUMPLEMAN-MORRISS: \u00a0<em>Maybe we need to ennoble the concept for working for a living&#8230;Hey! \u00a0Perfect! \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She frantically rips out another square.<\/p>\n<p>GRUMPLEMAN-MORRISS: &#8220;<em>Dear 1%: Work makes you free!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>She admires her handiwork.<\/p>\n<p>GRUMPLEMAN-MORRISS: <em>Goddess, those Teabaggers are culturally illiterate!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know I&#8217;m a clairvoyant? Either did anyone else! SCENE: \u00a0Tanya Grumpleman-Morriss, 21, a Grievance Studies major at Bard College, is making her new sign for the next day&#8217;s &#8220;Occupy&#8221; Rally. \u00a0The entire scene takes place in her head. GRUMPLEMAN-MORRISS: My last sign was such a success&#8230; &#8230;I need to come up with something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549","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=24549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24551,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549\/revisions\/24551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}