{"id":63096,"date":"2017-05-12T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63096"},"modified":"2017-05-11T23:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T04:29:57","slug":"trapped-in-a-world-they-never-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63096","title":{"rendered":"Trapped In A World They <strike>Never<\/strike> Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Star Tribune newspaper (using the term very generously) with their stable of leftist propagandists, is so far out of the reality loop that I am becoming convinced they are not merely pretending to believe this swill, they actually believe it. \u00a0I know this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/for-women-the-handmaid-s-tale-is-a-terrifying-warning-about-traditional-values\/420374583\/\">long and ludicrous review<\/a>, but it&#8217;s informative to see just how outrageous things have gotten.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s utterly ridiculous.\u00a0 The proposal to stop forcing taxpayers to pay for murdering babies in the womb is literally the same thing as enslaving women and assigning them to castes for breeding. \u00a0And that future is NOW!!!<\/p>\n<p>The show, in the works before Trump\u2019s election, \u201cbecame more relevant than we ever imagined,\u201d said Warren Littlefield, the executive producer, earlier this year. \u201cA big part of what we deal with in \u2018Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u2019 is the issue of women\u2019s control of their body, and now we\u2019re dealing with the possible defunding of Planned Parenthood . . . We didn\u2019t want to be more relevant, but somehow we got that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inability to distinguish fantasy from reality is a symptom of mental illness.\u00a0 Someone should intervene to help this woman.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You have to walk a long way from Hollywood to find someone capable of intervening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Star Tribune newspaper (using the term very generously) with their stable of leftist propagandists, is so far out of the reality loop that I am becoming convinced they are not merely pretending to believe this swill, they actually believe it. \u00a0I know this is a long and ludicrous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63096","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=63096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63097,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63096\/revisions\/63097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}