{"id":56837,"date":"2015-12-28T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56837"},"modified":"2015-12-27T23:02:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T05:02:52","slug":"an-army-travels-on-its-stomach-college-progressives-travel-on-that-blazing-sense-of-grievance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56837","title":{"rendered":"An Army Travels On Its Stomach; College &#8220;Progressives&#8221; Travel On That Blazing Sense Of Grievance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Students at Oberlin College are upset at the food in the cafeteria.\u00a0 Not because it sucks \u2013 it\u2019s institutional food, suckage is a given \u2013 but because the recipes aren\u2019t as good as Mom\u2019s and that makes the college guilty of a ghastly infliction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/12\/the-food-fight-at-oberlin-college\/421401\/\"><span class=\"s2\">culinary cultural appropriation<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I wonder if the bad food is helping them keep off the Freshman Fifteen, or if they\u2019re like the Marine who wrote a letter to his mother: \u201cThe food here is awful, and such small portions!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I note the contrast between the student\u2019s petition and my Dad\u2019s favorite tune from the Army:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The sushi at the college<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They say is mighty keen<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The fish is hard, the rice is mush<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And tastes like kerosene<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Oh, I don\u2019t want no more of college life<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gee, but I want to go,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But Mom won\u2019t let me go,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gee, but I want to go, home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Soldiers faced bad food with humor; students pretend bad food justifies moral outrage, I scoff at whining students as crybabies. \u00a0God help them the first time they tell their spouses \u201cIt\u2019s not as good as my Mom\u2019s cooking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">&#8220;Mothers&#8221; are a form of cultural appropriation. \u00a0Trigger warning. \u00a0Check your privilege.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Check and mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Students at Oberlin College are upset at the food in the cafeteria.\u00a0 Not because it sucks \u2013 it\u2019s institutional food, suckage is a given \u2013 but because the recipes aren\u2019t as good as Mom\u2019s and that makes the college guilty of a ghastly infliction of culinary cultural appropriation.\u00a0 \u00a0I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56837","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=56837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56838,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56837\/revisions\/56838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}