{"id":73,"date":"2007-06-30T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/oh-no-you-didnt\/"},"modified":"2007-06-30T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T21:04:02","slug":"oh-no-you-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/current-affairs\/oh-no-you-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh no you didn&#8217;t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/30\/gaypride.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=250,height=216,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gaypride\" border=\"0\" height=\"86\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/06\/30\/gaypride.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Gaypride\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a> On Sunday I was playing Taboo at a friend&#39;s house on 5th Avenue. One of the target words my team had to guess was &quot;bundle,&quot; one of the clues given to us being &quot;sticks.&quot; This is how I came to yell &quot;faggot!&quot; near an open window as the gay pride parade marched past. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>But, really, why were they still going at like 6pm? That thing started at like noon. I asked my friend what could keep the gays dancing for 6 hours nonstop in 80 degree heat. His response: &quot;They&#39;re powered by pride. And Meth.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ok meth I could understand. But pride? Seriously, there is nothing in my life I am that proud of. I could solve world hunger but after a couple hours of bopping around through the sweltering concrete jungle I&#39;d be all, ok I need a time out because somebody better solve my thirst situation.<\/p>\n<p>Later this week my friend sent me an email with the message &quot;are you being bugged or something?&quot; There was a link to Wednesday&#39;s <em>Onion<\/em> story: &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/opinion\/where_do_homosexuals_get_all\" target=\"_blank\">Where Do Homosexuals Get All Their Energy?<\/a>&quot; Buddy, I&#39;m sorry I dragged you into big brother&#39;s net; a line in the story reads, &quot;So I ask, where do they get all their energy? Is it from all that meth?&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday I was playing Taboo at a friend&#39;s house on 5th Avenue. One of the target words my team had to guess was &quot;bundle,&quot; one of the clues given to us being &quot;sticks.&quot; This is how I came to yell &quot;faggot!&quot; near an open window as the gay pride parade marched past. Oops. But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}