{"id":68192,"date":"2018-10-10T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68192"},"modified":"2018-10-09T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T01:39:48","slug":"thoroughly-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68192","title":{"rendered":"Thoroughly Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is waiting for the train at University and Hamline.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Suddenly, a group of 20 through 60-something women with protest signs and pink &#8220;feline&#8221; caps rushes across the street, waving signs and chanting chants.\u00a0 One of them is Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, a twenty-something graduate of Saint Olaf, and of Camp Wellstone.\u00a0 She works as a telemarketer for \u201cMinnesotans United for All Progressive Causes\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She notices BERG.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK (<em>Loudly, aggressively<\/em>):\u00a0 Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Um, hi, Moonbeam&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:\u00a0 Women are strong!\u00a0 We are invincible!\u00a0 A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle!\u00a0 We will eclipse masculinity!\u00a0 We will smash the patriarchy!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 So women who make any sort of claim of abuse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:\u00a0 Must be believed without question or reservation!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s already a big contradic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(But BIRKENSTOCK has already run down the platform, joining a mob stomping on a roll of MEN-tos.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Huh.<\/p>\n<p>(And<em> SCENE)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is waiting for the train at University and Hamline.\u00a0\u00a0 Suddenly, a group of 20 through 60-something women with protest signs and pink &#8220;feline&#8221; caps rushes across the street, waving signs and chanting chants.\u00a0 One of them is Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, a twenty-something graduate of Saint Olaf, and of Camp Wellstone.\u00a0 She works as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,308,27,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","category-men-and-women","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68192","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=68192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68195,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68192\/revisions\/68195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}