{"id":253,"date":"2006-01-09T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2006-01-09T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T15:22:47","slug":"america-lil-baby-waah-waah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"America: L&#8217;il Baby Waah Waah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember reading an article in <strong>Time<\/strong> magazine maybe ten years ago called something like &#8220;America: Nation of Whiners. Complainers and Cry-Babies.&#8221;  Regretably, as the items below demonstrate, that&#8217;s as true today as it was then:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/topstories\/local_story_007014551.html\">Family Calls Comic Book Racist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/ent\/stories\/DN-bizarro_0105gl.ART.State.Edition3.1880acd1.html\">Cowboy cartoon draws fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10736265\/\">Wal-Mart Web site makes racial connections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Said an astute commentor on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">slashdot<\/a>, &#8220;I&#8217;m not American so I&#8217;m not really exposed to this over-the-top sensitive PC stuff, but this seems just silly to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember reading an article in Time magazine maybe ten years ago called something like &#8220;America: Nation of Whiners. Complainers and Cry-Babies.&#8221; Regretably, as the items below demonstrate, that&#8217;s as true today as it was then: Family Calls Comic Book Racist Cowboy cartoon draws fire Wal-Mart Web site makes racial connections Said an astute commentor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=253\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-45","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}