{"id":39865,"date":"2013-11-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39865"},"modified":"2013-11-18T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:27:16","slug":"got-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39865","title":{"rendered":"Got Irony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an actual ad promoting Obama-care.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/?ui=2&amp;ik=351d81a076&amp;view=fimg&amp;th=1426b8d5b7594cf1&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=inline&amp;safe=1&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-x9Crfz7UFL0meOOUz53c64FJM7YPjqs8sVxd7AiwZSwGT_6YIH4ADqZYV_eclEsACu1ZSbOAYArYSitdpevtzcGZ1AtqgpASu4LhL93gcaPJIHlAnKpnyPd8&amp;ats=1384783904938&amp;rm=1426b8d5b7594cf1&amp;zw&amp;sz=w1425-h622\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s real (I checked Snopes). The message is that young women should buy Obama-care so they can get free birth control pills and therefore have as much sex as they want, without worrying about the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Two thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>1. Buying Obama-care to get free birth control pills is like buying a house to get the free toaster.<\/p>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<p>2. Iowahawk is right: it\u2019s amazing how much of modern feminism seems to have been thought up by horny teenage boys.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of liberalism and its attendant ideologies seem like the product of one form of arrested adolescence &#8211; self-righteousness, intense moralism mixed with minimal knowledge, or that know-it-all-ism that every 18 year old has, and that most 55-year-old Saint Olaf grads who still have Wellstone stickers on their Subarus never lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is an actual ad promoting Obama-care. It\u2019s real (I checked Snopes). The message is that young women should buy Obama-care so they can get free birth control pills and therefore have as much sex as they want, without worrying about the consequences. Two thoughts: 1. Buying Obama-care to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39865","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=39865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39866,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39865\/revisions\/39866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}