{"id":579,"date":"2006-06-04T20:12:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T20:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/04\/things-get-stupider\/"},"modified":"2006-06-04T20:12:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T20:12:49","slug":"things-get-stupider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Things get stupider&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gene is now a lifetime member of the NRA. REALLY!<\/p>\n<p>We were snuggling in bed with the dogs yesterday when he reminded me I have a small sum of &#8220;Fun&#8221; money to spend after he bought the most recent firearm (some sort of shotgun that looks like a pistol, I think). And THEN he did the NRA Lifetime Membership stunt. So I told him, Fine, I have that much to spend in &#8220;fun&#8221; money too. He said, Fine, but it has to be charitable donations to groups and you can only give that much to the groups once. So I said, Fine. I choose the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnc.org\/\">Democratic National Party<\/a>, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.now.org\/\">National Organization for Women<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/pp2\/portal\/\">Planned Parenthood<\/a>, the Cheesecake City Public Library system (ha ha, no link &#8212; too obvious!) and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eaglesfans.com\/\">Eaglesfans.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said, Fine, without NOW and Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>I said, Fine on NOW but Planned Parenthood was the only thing that kept you from Unplanned Parenthood w\/\u00a0HEM &#8482;. For awhile.<\/p>\n<p>He said, True &#8216;dat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene is now a lifetime member of the NRA. REALLY! We were snuggling in bed with the dogs yesterday when he reminded me I have a small sum of &#8220;Fun&#8221; money to spend after he bought the most recent firearm (some sort of shotgun that looks like a pistol, I think). And THEN he did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-cheesecake-city","category-really-deep-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}