{"id":4407,"date":"2018-10-08T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2018-10-08T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:26:31","slug":"mon-oct-8-2018-destroyer-of-natives-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2018\/10\/08\/mon-oct-8-2018-destroyer-of-natives-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. Oct. 8, 2018 &#8211; destroyer of natives day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  73F and wet.  More rain and even a TS or possible hurricane in our immediate future!<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s Columbus Day.  Schools and many businesses are closed.  I&#8217;ve got the kids at home, but my wife has to work.<\/p>\n<p>All y&#8217;all white racists are celebrating the destruction of native peoples by a white man.<\/p>\n<p>Or celebrating the destruction of a society of savages who sacrificed their enemies on an industrial scale and ruled over an empire of slaves, while bringing civilization to the continent.<\/p>\n<p>I guess you probably can guess which side I&#8217;m on.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll celebrate the diversity by dancing around naked, covered in the blood of my enemy&#8217;s still beating heart, which I&#8217;ll clutch aloft, while drinking chocolate and eating potatoes, before smoking a bowl of leaves, and then drying myself with a cotton cloth.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;ll use the internet to complain about all the horrible things that have happened to my ancestors since they were rescued from slavery, and living in huts, while I sit in my air-conditioned home, with my full belly, [mostly] safe from marauding savages.<\/p>\n<p>Flip a coin, they&#8217;re both equally valid, doncha know.<\/p>\n<p>n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  73F and wet.  More rain and even a TS or possible hurricane in our immediate future!<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s Columbus Day.  Schools and many businesses are closed.  I&#8217;ve got the kids at home, but my wife has to work.<\/p>\n<p>All y&#8217;all white racists are celebrating the destruction of native peoples by a white man.<\/p>\n<p>Or celebrating the destruction of a society of savages who sacrificed their enemies on an industrial scale and ruled over an empire of slaves,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2018\/10\/08\/mon-oct-8-2018-destroyer-of-natives-day\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. Oct. 8, 2018 &#8211; destroyer of natives day &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}