{"id":85517,"date":"2023-07-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85517"},"modified":"2023-07-09T20:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T01:54:38","slug":"the-cherry-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85517","title":{"rendered":"The Cherry On Top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, I suggest that the Abenaki tribe should take Ben and Jerry&#8217;s up on their demand to &#8220;give America&#8221; back to the tribes that used to live there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suggested last week that that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85489\">the Abenaki tribe that used to live where Burlington, Vermont &#8211; Ben and Jerry&#8217;s HQ &#8211; is today should take the company up on it<\/a>, and reclaim the shores of Lake Iwannavirtusignal (or whatever it&#8217;s called).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as if they were listening&#8230;<\/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\">Members of an Indigenous tribe have reportedly expressed interest in taking back the land now occupied by popular ice cream makers Ben &amp; Jerry&#39;s after the company posted a Fourth of July tweet calling for America to return &quot;stolen&quot; land.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NODC7UTfxx\">https:\/\/t.co\/NODC7UTfxx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 13WHAM (@13WHAM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/13WHAM\/status\/1677358061026160641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Abenaki tribe:  free airtime awaits.  Have your people call my people.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I suggest that the Abenaki tribe should take Ben and Jerry&#8217;s up on their demand to &#8220;give America&#8221; back to the tribes that used to live there. I suggested last week that that the Abenaki tribe that used to live where Burlington, Vermont &#8211; Ben and Jerry&#8217;s HQ &#8211; is today should take [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85517","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=85517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85523,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85517\/revisions\/85523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}