{"id":15747,"date":"2014-11-30T08:51:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15747"},"modified":"2014-12-10T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T21:20:30","slug":"the-land-of-curdled-milk-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15747","title":{"rendered":"The Land of Curdled Milk &#038; Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Screen Shot 2014-11-30 at 8.01.06 AM by Paul Woodford, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/rep-finchers-communications-director-fire-scolding-obama-daughters\/story?id=27250191\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Click image for story\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8664\/15294642473_7ec44e1d11_b.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-11-30 at 8.01.06 AM\" width=\"426\" height=\"745\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder what it\u2019s like on Conserva-Earth, where this nasty woman lives. Do young couples elope because they hate each other? Does the water smell vaguely of urine? Are surfaces coated with a thin layer of grime? Does everyone carry? Are pimples considered marks of beauty?<\/p>\n<p>Who are their role models? The Walton family? Rush Limbaugh? Wealthy white hit &amp; run drivers?<\/p>\n<p>I like it here on Normal Earth, where if I want good role models, I need look no farther than this family:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"10806339_10152862329167346_8132208710601065903_n by Paul Woodford, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/photos-and-video\/video\/2014\/11\/26\/first-family-participates-service-project\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Click image for story\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7495\/15726824508_4cea9544cf.jpg\" alt=\"10806339_10152862329167346_8132208710601065903_n\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder what it\u2019s like on Conserva-Earth, where this nasty woman lives. Do young couples elope because they hate each other? Does the water smell vaguely of urine? Are surfaces coated with a thin layer of grime? Does everyone carry? Are pimples considered marks of beauty? Who are their role models? The Walton family? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,10,2,827],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-15747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-wars","category-current-events","category-personal","category-social-media","tag-assholes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15759,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747\/revisions\/15759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}