{"id":88254,"date":"2024-08-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88254"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:30:25","slug":"the-dfl-dictionary-a-new-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88254","title":{"rendered":"The DFL Dictionary:  A New Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s high time we updated the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=5462\">DFL Dictionary<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; which, as you read it, is clearly a product of a more innocent time.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I do, one phrase I&#8217;m going to add is the &#8220;Urban Life Theme Park&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To wit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Urban Life Theme Park: <\/strong>(noun) A neighborhood, populated mostly by white middle-class &#8220;white &#8220;progressives&#8221; with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63101\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"63101\">Urban Progressive Privilege<\/a>, mostly from the &#8220;laptop class&#8221; (non-profit, governmental, academic or petty professional) and their &#8220;fur babies&#8221; (but, signally, <em>not <\/em>the people who work at their restaurants, bars, coffee shops brunch places, pet spas and doggie daycares).  Technically <em>in <\/em>the city for purposes of urban virtue-signaling (especially trying to one-up people from suburbs or rural areas), but economically and socially insulated from all but the most banal urban issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example:  this guy:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/NortonMpls\/status\/1829394115248689265\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I can smell a 2025 edition of the DFL Dictionary brewing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s high time we updated the &#8220;DFL Dictionary&#8221; &#8211; which, as you read it, is clearly a product of a more innocent time. When I do, one phrase I&#8217;m going to add is the &#8220;Urban Life Theme Park&#8221;. To wit: Urban Life Theme Park: (noun) A neighborhood, populated mostly by white middle-class &#8220;white &#8220;progressives&#8221; with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88254","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=88254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88255,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88254\/revisions\/88255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}