{"id":1840,"date":"2006-10-25T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2006-10-25T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T03:34:00","slug":"irks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"Irks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping irk:<\/p>\n<p>Hello internet companies.  I am ordering shit from you.  This implies I have income, which suggests I have a job.  One might suspect that I don&#8217;t want to take a day off to sit at home and wait for the package.  One would suspect correctly.  And yet your best advice is &#8220;ship it to a friend or relative that lives nearby.&#8221;?  Figure out a real solution to the problem and get back to me.  <\/p>\n<p>Language irk:<\/p>\n<p>The phrase &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; offends me deeply.  Partially because it&#8217;s bureaucratic weasel language for &#8220;genocide&#8221;.  &#8220;Genocide&#8221; sounds bad, because it is.  There&#8217;s nothing wrong with &#8220;ethnic&#8221;, and some might argue &#8220;cleansing&#8221; is a good word.  Genocide doesn&#8217;t deserve pretty language to cover up for it.  Let alone pretty language that validates the underlying viewpoint of those who practice it.  When someone uses the phrase &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221;, correct them, and tell them to say what they mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping irk: Hello internet companies. I am ordering shit from you. This implies I have income, which suggests I have a job. One might suspect that I don&#8217;t want to take a day off to sit at home and wait for the package. One would suspect correctly. And yet your best advice is &#8220;ship it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}