{"id":164774,"date":"2018-05-01T05:27:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T11:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=164774"},"modified":"2018-05-01T05:27:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T11:27:18","slug":"give-em-a-grand-crusade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=164774","title":{"rendered":"Give \u2018Em a Grand Crusade\u2026.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severian looks back in &#8230; well, dyspepsia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I got to college, back in the early Clinton years (effectively, 1988-2003), there were three generations of tie-dyed hippie dorks wandering around in search of something to protest.\u00a0 There I was, thinking hey, it\u2019s 1990, shouldn\u2019t the Tyrell Corporation have a booth at the job fair?, and yet every academic I ran into was still going off about Agent Orange and acid rock.\u00a0 Left-wingers in 1992, including 18 year old college freshmen, all looked like Left-wingers from 1967.\u00a0 It was all Vietnam, all the time, to the point where Bill Clinton was some kind of hero for having dodged the draft.<\/p>\n<p>(Remember that?\u00a0 And wasn\u2019t it a hoot when, just 8 short years later, George W. Bush was some kind of commie scumbag for having dodged the draft?\u00a0 Or remember the \u201cbrutal Afghan winter?\u201d\u00a0 Good times.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not old enough to remember this stuff, I\u2019m sure you get the point from the context \u2014 the Left spent the entire W. era trying to make the War on Terror into Vietnam II.\u00a0 John McCain was\u00a0<em>still<\/em> humping that chicken on the campaign trail in 2008, when most of his torturers from the Hanoi Hilton had keeled over from old age).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severian looks back in &#8230; well, dyspepsia. When I got to college, back in the early Clinton years (effectively, 1988-2003), there were three generations of tie-dyed hippie dorks wandering around in search of something to protest.\u00a0 There I was, thinking hey, it\u2019s 1990, shouldn\u2019t the Tyrell Corporation have a booth at the job fair?, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164775,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164774\/revisions\/164775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}