{"id":184121,"date":"2012-07-30T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/30\/win-3\/"},"modified":"2012-07-30T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:11:00","slug":"win-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/30\/win-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/kiro_westboro_zombie_120730c-615x34.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/>You know, I&#8217;ve never been a fan of the zombie genre.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never sat through a whole zombie movie (though I do want to see the genre bender <i>Shaun of the Dead<\/i>), and I really don&#8217;t get the whole zombie walk thing.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/07\/30\/zombies-take-on-westboro-anti-lgbt-protesters-near-seattle\/\">ziomnbie protest of Fred Phelps&#8217; twisted bigoted family<\/a> is a genius:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Counter-demonstrators dressed as zombies outnumbered protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church at a military base near DuPont, Washington over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Neace, 27, launched a Facebook group to organize the zombies event after she learned that the radical ant-LGBT church would be picketing Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to turn something negative around, into something people could laugh at and poke fun at,\u201d Neace explained to The News Tribune. \u201cIt was the easiest way to divert attention from something so hateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over 200 people committed to attending the event on Saturday, which she called \u201cZombie\u2019ing Westboro Baptist Church AWAY from Fort Lewis!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this is completely unrealistic.  <\/p>\n<p>Zombies eat brains, and they&#8217;d starve if they had to depend on Westboro Baptist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;ve never been a fan of the zombie genre. I&#8217;ve never sat through a whole zombie movie (though I do want to see the genre bender Shaun of the Dead), and I really don&#8217;t get the whole zombie walk thing. However, the ziomnbie protest of Fred Phelps&#8217; twisted bigoted family is a genius: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,967,1100,1030,1049,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-bigotry","category-funny","category-lgbtq","category-protests","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184121"}],"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=184121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}