{"id":14793,"date":"2014-08-28T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14793"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:20:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T22:20:15","slug":"abortion-bucket-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2014\/08\/abortion-bucket-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Bucket Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tweettacobeerchallengeabortion.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>While the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23TacoOrBeerChallenge&amp;src=tyah\">#TacoBeerChallenge<\/a>\u00a0started as an ironic Twitter joke, the straightforward message resonated and pictures of carne asada wrapped in a corn tortilla are proliferating on the web\u2013though members of the pro-life movement have tried to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StuffNickSays17\/status\/502838293533179904\">hijack<\/a>\u00a0the hashtag to harness the attention for their cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do ice buckets have to do with ALS? I don\u2019t know. What do tacos and beer have to do with abortion? I don\u2019t know that either,\u201d Grimes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rhrealitycheck.org\/article\/2014\/08\/21\/want-eat-taco-drink-beer-fund-abortion\/\">writes for RH Reality Check<\/a>. \u201cWhat I do know is that eating tacos and drinking beer is more pleasurable than getting doused with ice water, and that lawmakers around the country are passing increasingly restrictive anti-abortion access laws.\u201d Via <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3160471\/tacobeerchallenge-abortion-twitter\/\">Time Magazine<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is quite true there is no relationship in this abortion funding challenge and the acts purposed. Tacos and beer matches the abortion support rhetoric where language is obtuse hiding behind phrases with no mention of the reality. Really if they wanted a challenge in line with abortion values with a more signifying act. Perhaps the <em>Pigs Blood Bucket Challenge<\/em> makes a more accurate correlation visually.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"blood\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/abortion-bucket-challenge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"509\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Really for abortion supporters the bucket challenge is for unborn children to kick the bucket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the\u00a0#TacoBeerChallenge\u00a0started as an ironic Twitter joke, the straightforward message resonated and pictures of carne asada wrapped in a corn tortilla are proliferating on the web\u2013though members of the pro-life&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-14793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14794,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions\/14794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}