{"id":55123,"date":"2015-09-17T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55123"},"modified":"2015-09-11T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:10:26","slug":"unfashionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55123","title":{"rendered":"Unfashionable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mel Brooks poked fun at racists in Blazing Saddles with the line:\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll take the Blacks and the Asians . . . but we don\u2019t want the Irish!\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.html#page=1\">Well, maybe not the Asians, either<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Affirmative action penalizes Asians in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, outside Vietnamese and Koreans, most of them vote Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, America&#8217;s ethnic minorities will figure it out. \u00a0Hopefully while there&#8217;s still time to fix things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Mel Brooks poked fun at racists in Blazing Saddles with the line:\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll take the Blacks and the Asians . . . but we don\u2019t want the Irish!\u201d Well, maybe not the Asians, either. Joe Doakes Affirmative action penalizes Asians in higher education. And yet, outside Vietnamese and Koreans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55123","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=55123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55129,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55123\/revisions\/55129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}