{"id":182432,"date":"2015-09-22T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/22\/get-a-brain-morans\/"},"modified":"2015-09-22T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T02:19:00","slug":"get-a-brain-morans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/22\/get-a-brain-morans\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a Brain, Morans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/eNtPTqJ.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/>Some inbred white bigots who don&#8217;t know how to use a spell checker have decided that enough is enough, so they took to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/local\/city-of-richmond\/article_9f6b0ece-9f28-5917-ba48-0e73f501dd5a.html\">flying pro confederate banners over various monuments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Community activists and historic preservationists got help from an unusual source to draw attention to their protest Saturday of statues of Confederate leaders on Monument Avenue during the first day of training for the UCI Road World Championships.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A small plane carrying a banner with a Confederate battle flag and the phrase \u201cConfederate <b><span style=\"font-size: 130%; font-variant: small-caps;\">heros<\/span><\/b> matter\u201d circled above Monument Avenue, where the protest had gathered at the statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The Virginia Flaggers, who took credit for the banner on their Facebook page, said the misspelling of \u201cheroes\u201d was \u201cPilot error. We sent the right spelling. We think the point was still made.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis is the first time he\u2019s ever messed up,\u201d Grayson Jennings, a spokesman for the Virginia Flaggers, said of the pilot in an interview. \u201cI don\u2019t think half the people even knew he messed up.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/1FKIJsX.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, people know.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to end up a major meme, kind of like this pic:<\/p>\n<p>The stupid, it burns us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some inbred white bigots who don&#8217;t know how to use a spell checker have decided that enough is enough, so they took to flying pro confederate banners over various monuments: Community activists and historic preservationists got help from an unusual source to draw attention to their protest Saturday of statues of Confederate leaders on Monument &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1011,1001,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-history","category-racism","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}