{"id":67504,"date":"2018-07-27T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67504"},"modified":"2018-07-27T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T05:05:11","slug":"joe-doakes-last-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67504","title":{"rendered":"Joe Doakes&#8217; Last Straw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The people demanding a ban on plastic drinking straws are all young and hip.\u00a0 They think it&#8217;d be easy to switch to paper straws and way cool.<br \/>\nThose of us who are old and unhip remember paper straws.\u00a0 They collapsed when sucking a malt.\u00a0 They got soggy and mashed in your mouth when drinking a Coke so you had to keep ripping the end off, making the straw shorter and shorter.\u00a0 They were skinny and tasted bad.<br \/>\nBut hey, bring back the past, by all means &#8211; trains and paper straws and bicycle-only-streets.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait for buggy whips.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re getting a lot of the big innovations from the LBJ and McGovern era.\u00a0 Why not paper straws.\u00a0 And Cnevy Citations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The people demanding a ban on plastic drinking straws are all young and hip.\u00a0 They think it&#8217;d be easy to switch to paper straws and way cool. Those of us who are old and unhip remember paper straws.\u00a0 They collapsed when sucking a malt.\u00a0 They got soggy and mashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67504","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=67504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67505,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67504\/revisions\/67505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}