{"id":600,"date":"2014-02-11T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=600"},"modified":"2014-02-11T01:19:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:19:15","slug":"a-language-redefinition-the-left-hasnt-thought-of-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"A language redefinition the left hasn&#8217;t thought of yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly impossible to satirize the left for a while now, and it&#8217;s not smart to try because you&#8217;ll do their thinking for them and they&#8217;ll steal the idea and implement it. So this is probably not a good blog entry. But they&#8217;ll think of it themselves anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Why hasn&#8217;t the left done away with the term &#8220;home invasion&#8221;? Think about it. If there is anything in the news that makes a person want to jump into his or her SUV and drive down to the local gun store, it&#8217;s reading about a &#8220;home invasion.&#8221; Calling the cops doesn&#8217;t do much good because it&#8217;s happening real time. It&#8217;s not as useless as calling the White House about a consulate attack, but then not much is. A Michelle Obama-approved school lunch comes close.<\/p>\n<p>The left doesn&#8217;t want private citizens to have guns. So why hasn&#8217;t some pointy headed leftist decreed that &#8220;home invasion&#8221; is offensive or racist and demanded it be replaced by something more innocuous? Like residential shoplifter, perhaps. As soon as one does, the media will dutifully comply as they always do.<\/p>\n<p>So I predict they&#8217;ll do just that. When, I don&#8217;t know. But all I know is that the\u00a0plagiaristic left won&#8217;t give this blog credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly impossible to satirize the left for a while now, and it&#8217;s not smart to try because you&#8217;ll do their thinking for them and they&#8217;ll steal the idea and implement it. So this is probably not a good &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=600\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}