{"id":58717,"date":"2016-05-09T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58717"},"modified":"2016-05-09T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:36:00","slug":"further-proof-western-civilization-is-in-deep-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58717","title":{"rendered":"Further Proof Western Civilization Is In Deep Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pet owners <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/05\/02\/pet-owners-deserve-family-leave-too\/\">demanding &#8220;Paw-Ternity&#8221; leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0I couldn\u2019t help but think that, just as Jameson was getting used to me, he feared I, too, was abandoning him. The guilt continues today: While my co-workers with kids walk out the door at 6 p.m., no one seems to care that I also have a child at home waiting for dinner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have a &#8220;child&#8221; at home waiting for dinner. \u00a0You have a pet. \u00a0An animal whose instincts amply suit it to survived without &#8220;mom&#8221; juuuuuust fine.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know where you teach your (two-legged) children not to mock people who look, think, act or believe differently than them? \u00a0 \u00a0Let&#8217;s all make an exception for people who think pets are &#8220;children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(And if the free market can afford to pay for &#8220;paw-ternity&#8221; leave, I&#8217;m all for it. \u00a0But you just know this is going to become yet another government mandate, don&#8217;t you?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pet owners demanding &#8220;Paw-Ternity&#8221; leave. Money quote: \u00a0I couldn\u2019t help but think that, just as Jameson was getting used to me, he feared I, too, was abandoning him. The guilt continues today: While my co-workers with kids walk out the door at 6 p.m., no one seems to care that I also have a child [&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-58717","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\/58717","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=58717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58718,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58717\/revisions\/58718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}