{"id":1989,"date":"2003-01-22T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-22T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/22\/political-apologies-my-fellow\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:27:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:27:24","slug":"political-apologies-my-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/22\/political-apologies-my-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Political Apologies<\/h4>\n<p>My fellow Americans, when I wrote a song about Mitch, I never meant to offend anyone by writing, <i>&#8220;I like Mitch, even though he&#8217;s straight.&#8221;<\/i>  Those who know me can attest that this was only meant to be humorous.  I don&#8217;t look upon anyone due to their sexual orientation.  Heterosexual people can&#8217;t help the way they are and we should look upon them with tolerance.<br \/>\nUm, just kidding.  <i>Great<\/i> and <i>straight<\/i> just ryhme so well.  I&#8217;ll look for a replacement.  Please stop sending me hate email.  I sincerely hope that Mitch&#8217;s feeling were not hurt.  I hope that he would contact me directly if they were.  I&#8217;m very very sorry.  It won&#8217;t happen again.  From now on, I promise to banish perjorative terms, such as &#8220;breeders&#8221; from my vocabulary.  It&#8217;s time that we as a nation moved beyond such petty distinctions to a happy utopia where queers and hets can live in harmony.<br \/>\neven though nobody on earth has ever been straight bashed by anyone shouting &#8220;breeder,&#8221; it&#8217;s still a very naughty word, like calling white folks &#8220;redneck crackers,&#8221; which is something that&#8217;s also very very naughty.  Naughty Naughty Naughty.  Mia Culpa.  dern humorless hets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Apologies My fellow Americans, when I wrote a song about Mitch, I never meant to offend anyone by writing, &#8220;I like Mitch, even though he&#8217;s straight.&#8221; Those who know me can attest that this was only meant to be humorous. I don&#8217;t look upon anyone due to their sexual orientation. Heterosexual people can&#8217;t help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/22\/political-apologies-my-fellow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,304],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-micxjo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}