{"id":580,"date":"2009-04-10T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/10\/writing\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T13:18:00","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/10\/writing\/","title":{"rendered":"writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My co-worker&#8217;s brother &#8211; who also works on campus &#8211; was the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">designated<\/span> driver to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Chipotle<\/span> yesterday. \u00a0 On the way back, I saw some <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">graffiti<\/span> on the wall of a building near some train tracks. \u00a0We went past it too quickly for me to see what all was written there, but I saw enough to want to investigate.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, after work, I drove over to a parking lot near that wall and located the text. \u00a0Here&#8217;s what it said:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>War is Peace<\/div>\n<div>Freedom is Slavery<\/div>\n<div>Ignorance is Strength<\/div>\n<div>Orwell you were so right<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Well, duh. \u00a0 I was hoping for something more insightful than that. \u00a0If you&#8217;re going to go to the trouble of defacing a building with an intellectual quote (instead of, say, &#8220;<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">kilroy<\/span> was here&#8221;) \u00a0&#8211; then you should either leave it as it stands or add to it in the spirit of the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">original<\/span> writer. \u00a0 \u00a0 What is this? \u00a0<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Youtube<\/span>?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Disappointing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-725257950834834516?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My co-worker&#8217;s brother &#8211; who also works on campus &#8211; was the designated driver to Chipotle yesterday. \u00a0 On the way back, I saw some graffiti on the wall of a building near some train tracks. \u00a0We went past it too quickly for me to see what all was written there, but I saw enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}