{"id":4280,"date":"2009-02-26T06:05:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2009-02-26T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T11:05:48","slug":"i-cant-make-it-up-fast-enough-part-mmmmxlcxxxix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4280","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Make It Up Fast Enough, Part MMMMXLCXXXIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve joked about it in the past.\u00a0 Since rabid, corrosive sexism became vogue-y during the election in response to Sarah Palin, it seems only reasonable that if Bobby Jindal becomes a serious contender for President, &#8220;Apu the Convenience Store Clerk&#8221; japes will be declared completely politically correct, and South-Asian Americans will become the left&#8217;s new racial kicktoy.<\/p>\n<p>Pinky swear, it was a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Until <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/25\/the-obligatory-helen-thomas-makes-nasty-crack-about-jindal-post\/\">yesterday<\/a>, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>(Note to Allahpundit: your post&#8217;s headline, &#8220;The obligatory \u201cHelen Thomas makes nasty crack about Jindal?\u201d post&#8221; contains the words &#8220;Helen Thomas&#8221; and\u00a0&#8220;crack&#8221;,\u00a0three words that should never appear in a sentence in any context.\u00a0 Please see to this).\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve joked about it in the past.\u00a0 Since rabid, corrosive sexism became vogue-y during the election in response to Sarah Palin, it seems only reasonable that if Bobby Jindal becomes a serious contender for President, &#8220;Apu the Convenience Store Clerk&#8221; japes will be declared completely politically correct, and South-Asian Americans will become the left&#8217;s new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","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=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}