{"id":453,"date":"2017-11-23T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2017-11-23T19:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T19:28:25","slug":"this-is-the-time-where-we-blow-everything-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"This is the time where we blow everything up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve figured it out.\u00a0 Brexit, Trump, #MeToo, &#8230;\u00a0 it&#8217;s the year (five years?) of Fuck It.\u00a0 Nothing was working, everything was grinding to a halt.\u00a0 Everyone was proposing changes around the edges for longstanding problems that nobody was really addressing.\u00a0 Gridlock.\u00a0 Sand in the gears, no progress.\u00a0 People tried the polite protest, but no go, no improvement.\u00a0 Women still earning 70c on the male dollar.\u00a0 Climate not being addressed.\u00a0 Huge economic inequality, some people making out like bandits and most people going backwards.\u00a0 Not to mention the Endless War of occupation for ill-defined and discredited principles that we can&#8217;t extract ourselves from.<\/p>\n<p>So everyone collectively said: to hell with it, we&#8217;re going to blow it all up.\u00a0 Everyone understands there&#8217;s a cost: women publicly exposing their hurt, despite the cost to their career or respect from the world, because it&#8217;ll finally cost the perpetrators more.\u00a0 Republicans knowing that Trump&#8217;s a dangerous ass, but hoping he&#8217;ll destroy politics-as-usual.<\/p>\n<p>So they did.\u00a0No idea what&#8217;ll happen next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve figured it out.\u00a0 Brexit, Trump, #MeToo, &#8230;\u00a0 it&#8217;s the year (five years?) of Fuck It.\u00a0 Nothing was working, everything was grinding to a halt.\u00a0 Everyone was proposing changes around the edges for longstanding problems that nobody was really addressing.\u00a0 Gridlock.\u00a0 Sand in the gears, no progress.\u00a0 People tried the polite protest, but no go, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}