{"id":1394,"date":"2007-05-23T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2014-03-09T05:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T09:06:19","slug":"damn-elitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1394\/damn-elitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn elitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I get tired of with Democrat\/Progressive blogs is, for instance, not being satisfied to jump up and down about Wingnut ideology (which is all that&#8217;s needed) but stooping to go, &#8220;Nyah, nyah!  Look, stupid can&#8217;t even spell!&#8221;  It&#8217;s elitist and wrong and unnecessary.  I suppose it galls me as much as it does as I&#8217;ve worked with individuals who&#8217;ve gone to court to fight for their rights and some of them couldn&#8217;t spell worth a damn either.  What&#8217;s important are ideas.  When you forget that and start picking apart appearances, you fall into prejudice, and spelling falls into that category. Believe it or not, one&#8217;s ability to spell is not a measure of intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I get tired of with Democrat\/Progressive blogs is, for instance, not being satisfied to jump up and down about Wingnut ideology (which is all that&#8217;s needed) but stooping to go, &#8220;Nyah, nyah! Look, stupid can&#8217;t even spell!&#8221; It&#8217;s elitist and wrong and unnecessary. I suppose it galls me as much as it does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}