{"id":1873,"date":"2006-05-25T19:56:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T03:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2007-09-06T00:34:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:34:56","slug":"who-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"who us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One ought not to get wound up over what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goats.com\/archive\/060518.html\">fictional characters<\/a> say, but what if the character in question has the same name as his creator?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n<i>Lizard:<\/i> Five thousand years of selective pressure against pride and ego battered them into a race of bitter, nervous, hate-filled, self-loathing xenophobes.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jon:<\/i> They became libertarians?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heaven knows I have my share of bitter, nervous self-loathing &ndash; but hate-filled xenophobe? Where the hell did that come from?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Later:<\/strong> So I asked Jon.  Seems his notion of a libertarian is someone who lives in an isolated cabin and shoots at trespassers.  Maybe I gave him a broader idea of the concept.  At his request I suggested a couple of works of fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One ought not to get wound up over what fictional characters say, but what if the character in question has the same name as his creator? Lizard: Five thousand years of selective pressure against pride and ego battered them into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1873\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}