{"id":190351,"date":"2009-12-07T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/07\/you-know-this-might-bother-me-too-if-i-were-an-8-year-old\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:22:00","slug":"you-know-this-might-bother-me-too-if-i-were-an-8-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/07\/you-know-this-might-bother-me-too-if-i-were-an-8-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know, This Might Bother Me Too&#8230;&#8230; If I Were an 8 Year Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 310px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img11.imageshack.us\/img11\/6791\/4wisemant6077644594.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img11.imageshack.us\/img11\/6791\/4wisemant6077644594.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">8 Year old, see Emotional Maturity of<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>So, when Barack Obama gave his speech on Afghanistan, he preempted a showing of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/span>, and the Mayor of Arlington, Tennessee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/dec\/04\/mayor-fires-at-obama-online\/\">decided to throw a hissy fit on his Facebook page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cOk, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch \u2018The Charlie Brown Christmas Special\u2019 and our muslim president is there, what a load\u2026..try to convince me that wasn\u2019t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it\u2026.when the answer should simply be \u2018yes\u2019\u2026.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/span> was on that Tuesday, and yes, it was preempted, and yes, it&#8217;s among the most sincere of the Christmas specials out there, but this sort of crap is beneath maturity level of a 9-year old, particularly when it&#8217;s showing <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">tomorrow<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">next Tuesday<\/span> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 Year old, see Emotional Maturity of So, when Barack Obama gave his speech on Afghanistan, he preempted a showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas, and the Mayor of Arlington, Tennessee decided to throw a hissy fit on his Facebook page: \u201cOk, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch \u2018The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190351"}],"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=190351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}