{"id":2340,"date":"2012-05-15T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:04:46","slug":"todays-hilarious-simile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/15\/todays-hilarious-simile\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s hilarious simile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now, for something more amusing, let&#39;s turn to John Scalzi&#39;s blog entry, <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/05\/15\/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is\">&quot;Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is,&quot;<\/a> which begins:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&rsquo;ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men<\/strong> <b>how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word &ldquo;privilege,&rdquo; to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart at high noon.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The entry itself goes on to analogize &quot;straight white male&quot; privilege as the easiest level setting in a video game. I sense some implicit <a href=\"http:\/\/geekfeminism.wikia.com\/wiki\/Oppression_Olympics\">Oppression Olympics<\/a> going on in his analogy, so I can&#39;t recommend it unreservedly, but that opening comparison sure is hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now, for something more amusing, let&#39;s turn to John Scalzi&#39;s blog entry, &quot;Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is,&quot; which begins: I&rsquo;ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word &ldquo;privilege,&rdquo; to which they react like vampires being fed&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/15\/todays-hilarious-simile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s hilarious simile<\/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":[729,639],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","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=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}