{"id":1776,"date":"2017-02-08T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:27","slug":"life-in-the-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/life-in-the-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Life In The 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Headed Irish Wisecracker sighed again as she perused her 6Plus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jill is an idiot&#8221; she intoned, , exasperation filling the room.<\/p>\n<p>I knew what it was. Facebook. Old High School friends now in the grip of the Zombie Plague of Trump Derangement Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was an idiot in High School. Did you expect her to change?&#8221; I bantered , hoping the moment had passed.<\/p>\n<p>I got the look. The &#8220;Let me rant and shut up until I am done&#8221; look.<\/p>\n<p>I rolled my eyes and proceeded to watch Tucker skewer another guest with his nuclear giggle while I glanced at Instapundit on the Surface Pro in my lap.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to intervene. &#8220;Alexa\u2026Play Jeopardy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The insidious and sonorous voice from the Bezos hockey puck like object begins to say the category and answer , which the Red Headed Irish Wisecracker must answer in the form of a question. She gets it right. I get a smile which makes my day.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad the category was not Idiots You Unfortunately Still Know.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1776\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1776\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Headed Irish Wisecracker sighed again as she perused her 6Plus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jill is an idiot&#8221; she intoned, , exasperation filling the room.<\/p>\n<p>I knew what it was. Facebook. Old High School friends now in the grip of the Zombie Plague of Trump Derangement Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was an idiot in High School. Did you expect her to change?&#8221; I bantered , hoping the moment had passed.<\/p>\n<p>I got the look. The &#8220;Let me rant and shut up until I am done&#8221; look.<\/p>\n<p>I rolled my eyes and proceeded to watch Tucker skewer another guest with his nuclear giggle while I glanced at Instapundit on the Surface Pro in my lap.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to intervene. &#8220;Alexa\u2026Play Jeopardy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The insidious and sonorous voice from the Bezos hockey puck like object &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/life-in-the-21st\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}