{"id":2254,"date":"2010-10-27T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2013-09-01T18:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:19:21","slug":"the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/2254","title":{"rendered":"The Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has recently come to my attention that not everyone is aware of The Rules.  I am posting them here as a public service.  Please familiarize yourself with them, as you will be held accountable for knowing them.<\/p>\n<p>1. I have very strong opinions on a wide range of political issues.  These opinions are the correct opinions.  If you disagree with them, you are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>2. I do not know why I was the one who was blessed with the correct combination of opinions, but I take my gift seriously, and am always willing to share them with those around me.<\/p>\n<p>3. If you are on the other side of the political spectrum, you are the opposition.  You are not on that side because you have a different set of core values and beliefs about how America can be improved.  You only pretend to care about America to advance your sick and twisted agenda.<\/p>\n<p>4. If you are on the same side as me, but closer to the center, you are the lapdog of the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>5. If you are on the same side as me, but farther from the center, you are a fringe lunatic.<\/p>\n<p>6. If you share my exact positions on all of the issues except for one, you are tragically misguided about that issue and are probably being misled by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>7.  The mainstream media is definitely the lapdog of the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>8.  There are a great many issues where I disagree with Hitler.  If you disagree with me on any of these issues, you are Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>9.  If, however, you compare me to Hitler, you are behaving inappropriately, and have automatically lost the argument.<\/p>\n<p>10. Politicians are all corrupt liars.  That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t vote.<\/p>\n<p>This Election Day, be like me.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/835\">Don&#8217;t vote.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has recently come to my attention that not everyone is aware of The Rules. I am posting them here as a public service. Please familiarize yourself with them, as you will be held accountable for knowing them. 1. I have very strong opinions on a wide range of political issues. These opinions are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41,40,9,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-information-literacy","category-list","category-politics","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}