{"id":83574,"date":"2022-10-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83574"},"modified":"2022-10-10T09:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:31:40","slug":"slipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83574","title":{"rendered":"Slipped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>If I were on the Nobel Committee, this simple meme would be my nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-5-1024x854.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83576\" width=\"545\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-5-1024x854.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-5-300x250.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-5-768x640.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-5-360x300.png 360w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-5.png 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s simple, and it sums up the modern culture war to a &#8220;T&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We warned you that if marriage got redefined to something other than &#8220;a guy and a gal&#8221; to &#8220;two people getting together to enjoy the legal benefits of a contractual status&#8221;, there was literally no logical or moral reason that couldn&#8217;t be extended to two or more people &#8211; or not necessarily people at all&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s never gonna happen, and you&#8217;re paranoid and weird&#8221;, they said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course we were right:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYC judge rules polyamorous unions entitled to same legal protections as 2-person relationships <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9WXUfLKd64\">https:\/\/t.co\/9WXUfLKd64<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JcBxKe16IP\">pic.twitter.com\/JcBxKe16IP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1578873702133141504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But remember &#8211; nobody&#8217;s coming for your guns, there&#8217;s no  such thing as election fraud, there&#8217;s no way January 6 was a shake and bake&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were on the Nobel Committee, this simple meme would be my nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature this year: It&#8217;s simple, and it sums up the modern culture war to a &#8220;T&#8221;. We warned you that if marriage got redefined to something other than &#8220;a guy and a gal&#8221; to &#8220;two people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-snappy-answers-to-casual-gaslighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83574","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=83574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83577,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83574\/revisions\/83577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}