{"id":480,"date":"2005-01-28T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=480"},"modified":"2006-10-08T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T11:31:17","slug":"498-of-spongebob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"[478] Of SpongeBob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I don&#8217;t watch SpongeBob. It&#8217;s just not my taste and I don&#8217;t know anybody with my age  that would watch it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Fair use. Taken from Wikipedia\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/spongeBob.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>But, SpongeBob said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And BAMN (not to be confused with BAMN, the U of M Ann Arbor campuswide party that is known to commit itself in excessively loud deplorable shouting match instead of a civilized political discussion)! The fundamentalist rightist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/TV--Radio\/SpongeBob-is-asexual-says-creator\/2005\/01\/29\/1106850117040.html?oneclick=true\">goes nut<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Now, the gay movement is having a field day by criticizing the rightist attack on a <em>cartoon character<\/em>. Tsk, tsk, tsk. I&#8217;m just glad I&#8217;m not in the middle of a potentially ugly but silly fray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I don&#8217;t watch SpongeBob. It&#8217;s just not my taste and I don&#8217;t know anybody with my age that would watch it. But, SpongeBob said: I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own. And BAMN (not to be confused with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}