{"id":71119,"date":"2019-04-22T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71119"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:18:39","slug":"stupid-myopic-panic-stricken-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71119","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Myopic Panic-Stricken Millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I almost thought this tweet, apparently by a 20 year old Grievance Studies major from Oberlin College, to be the sort of thing that only Snopes would think wasn&#8217;t parody:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Does&#8230;anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IK9h8fOwNj\">https:\/\/t.co\/IK9h8fOwNj<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maggieNYT\/status\/1118886051962134528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, &#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; was written by Rogers and Hammerstein, in the late fifties.  For a movie about some escaping from Naziism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here it is, in all its storm-trooper-y goodness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMuTDdWXbNo?start=65\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Silly millennials <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:  I&#8217;m told that Ms. Haberman is not actually a grievance studies major from Oberlin, but in fact NBC&#8217;s White House correspondent and one of the &#8220;elite&#8221; &#8220;gatekeepers&#8221; that are supposed to keep the public&#8217;s news safe and hygienic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mistake.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost thought this tweet, apparently by a 20 year old Grievance Studies major from Oberlin College, to be the sort of thing that only Snopes would think wasn&#8217;t parody: Does&#8230;anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song? https:\/\/t.co\/IK9h8fOwNj \u2014 Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 18, 2019 Of course, &#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; was written by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,4,130,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ch-ch-changes-generational-politics","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71119","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=71119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71129,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71119\/revisions\/71129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}