{"id":20914,"date":"2017-07-18T09:05:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20914"},"modified":"2017-07-18T09:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:05:31","slug":"better-get-used-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20914","title":{"rendered":"Better Get Used to It"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I tagged along with other docents at the air museum, learning the ropes, I picked up an anecdote about Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. One of our display aircraft is an executive jet from the presidential fleet. Not an Air Force One\u2014no president ever flew in it\u2014but definitely a dignitary-hauler, used by vice presidents, cabinet secretaries, other government\u00a0face cards. The story was that Lady Bird Johnson frequently used it to travel\u00a0back and forth between Austin and DC, and that LBJ’s nickname for the plane was “Air Force One-Half.”<\/p>\n

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Air Force One-Half (photo: Pima Air & Space Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, that was worth a chuckle and I told\u00a0the story to museum visitors for a while, but over time quit. The story’s\u00a0cute but demeaning, and although visitors always laughed, I’d occasionally see a grimace. Two weeks ago a visitor left a comment\u00a0card complaining about a joke one of our tram drivers shared, and the museum director told the tram driver his volunteer days were over. I never found out what was said, but it easily could have been the LBJ story.<\/p>\n

Docents don’t talk politics, sex, or religion with museum visitors. Yesterday, before the morning tours began, I sat with three other docents at a table on the patio by the museum restaurant. We thought we had the patio to ourselves; none of us saw the solitary visitor in a Harley T-shirt three tables away. We were bullshitting about this and that when one of the docents asked, “So what do you think of Trump’s son?” Before anyone could answer, the visitor announced his presence by standing\u00a0up and informing us, in a loud voice, that Trump is president whether we like it or not and we’d better get used to it. We clammed up, of course, but oh my god did I want to say,\u00a0“Yeah and I bet you said the same thing when Obama was president.” Damn near bit my tongue off keeping it in.<\/p>\n

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I’m going to the dentist to have my teeth cleaned in a couple of hours. I don’t want to get wrapped up in\u00a0a long blog post because it’ll eat into the time I’ve set aside for showering and flossing, so I’ll keep this one\u00a0short.<\/p>\n

I’m following this story<\/a> because I’ve always wondered what we as a society would do when the police start murdering white people for no reason. I’m not expecting much, honestly …\u00a0so many red lines have been crossed we’ve become inured to it.<\/p>\n

Here’s another<\/a> in a long list of reasons why liberals don’t\u00a0shop at WalMart.<\/p>\n

Twitter users are on the fainting couch, fanning themselves\u00a0over Steve Bannon’s reported description<\/a> of\u00a0Speaker of the House Paul Ryan as \u201ca limp-dick motherfucker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.\u201d Look, I agree Bannon is an evil man, but\u00a0it’s impossible to disagree with his take on Ryan, and anyway, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use similar language on a daily basis. Just not in front of museum visitors, okay?<\/p>\n

And shouldn’t Petri be capitalized?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I tagged along with other docents at the air museum, learning the ropes, I picked up an anecdote about Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. One of our display aircraft is an executive jet from the presidential fleet. Not an Air Force One\u2014no president ever flew in it\u2014but definitely a dignitary-hauler, used by vice presidents, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,10,2,8,827],"tags":[2360,2359],"class_list":["post-20914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-wars","category-current-events","category-personal","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-current-events","tag-offensive-speech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20914","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=20914"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20919,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20914\/revisions\/20919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}