{"id":8879,"date":"2002-11-14T19:09:47","date_gmt":"2002-11-15T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/14\/brainwashed-in-berkeley\/"},"modified":"2002-11-14T19:09:47","modified_gmt":"2002-11-15T00:09:47","slug":"brainwashed-in-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/brainwashed-in-berkeley\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainwashed in Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>They still<br \/>\nbelieve in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. They don\ufffdt know how to spell their<br \/>\nlast names or tie their own shoes. But they do know that \ufffdwar is bad,\ufffd and that<br \/>\n\ufffdBush is a bully.\ufffd <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The next generation of Berkeley peaceniks gathered on the<br \/>\nsteps of City Hall Tuesday to demonstrate their opposition to a pending war in<br \/>\nIraq- after school, of course. Armed with protest signs, microphones, and Harry<br \/>\nPotter lunch-boxes, elementary and pre-school children demanded city leaders<br \/>\ncontact President Bush and halt his hawkish \ufffdwar for oil.\ufffd<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font\ncolor=#3333ff>&#8230;Celia, age 6, who could not spell her hyphenated last name,<br \/>\ntold the crowd President Bush \ufffdwants to make war because he wants oil.\ufffd<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calpatriot.org\/\">Full story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>At least these kids are as least as intelligent and know as much as the<br \/>\nrun-of-the-mill Berkeley protesters do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They still believe in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. They don\ufffdt know how to spell their last names or tie their own shoes. But they do know that \ufffdwar&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}