{"id":2302,"date":"2012-04-13T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:09:12","slug":"yo-is-this-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/04\/13\/yo-is-this-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo, is this racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked up <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/impetus\"><i>impetus<\/i><\/a> on dictionary.com to verify that the plural is <i>impetuses.<\/i> [It is.] For a quote that used the word in a sentence, the dictionary provided this shining gem by the horrendous bilgewhacker D.H. Lawrence:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&quot;While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.&quot;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently this comes from a 1920s novel by Lawrence entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Plumed_Serpent\">The Plumed Serpent.<\/a> Stupid condescending crap from the main character Kate.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the dictionary.com quote generator should <i>exclude<\/i> bigoted tripe, huh?<\/p>\n<p>P.S. The title of this entry comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/yoisthisracist.com\/\">Yo, Is this Racist?,<\/a> a hilarious [and ableist] Q&amp;A blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked up impetus on dictionary.com to verify that the plural is impetuses. [It is.] For a quote that used the word in a sentence, the dictionary provided this shining gem by the horrendous bilgewhacker D.H. Lawrence: &quot;While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/04\/13\/yo-is-this-racist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yo, is this racist?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[729,656],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5366,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}