{"id":2777,"date":"2012-10-30T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2012-10-30T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T12:45:00","slug":"the-stupidity-of-grimm-part-n-in-an-ongoing-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/10\/30\/the-stupidity-of-grimm-part-n-in-an-ongoing-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The stupidity of Grimm, part n in an ongoing series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest ep, La Llorona, the titular character, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_llorona\">Central\/South American&nbsp;ghost<\/a> mourning her kids, whom she drowned,&nbsp;kidnaps children. Nick learns this from a Spanish-speaking man who has lost his son. The man speaks no English, and apparently no one in the Portland Police Department speaks Spanish, so, on this flimsiest of pretexts, the story drags in Juliette [Nick&#39;s girlfriend] to translate for the man.<\/p>\n<p>I call bullshit. The father of the kidnapped kid knows no English <i>at all,<\/i> not even enough to say, &quot;Let&#39;s communicate in Spanish&quot;? More to the point, the Portland PD, which <i>should<\/i> be prepared to deal with&nbsp;many nationalities of people and many languages,&nbsp;has <i>no one<\/i> at their disposal who understands even basic Spanish?! <i>No one<\/i> is available who knows the primary language of the country with which we share a 2000-mile-long southern border? BULLLLLLLLLSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest ep, La Llorona, the titular character, a Central\/South American&nbsp;ghost mourning her kids, whom she drowned,&nbsp;kidnaps children. Nick learns this from a Spanish-speaking man who has lost his son. The man speaks no English, and apparently no one in the Portland Police Department speaks Spanish, so, on this flimsiest of pretexts, the story&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/10\/30\/the-stupidity-of-grimm-part-n-in-an-ongoing-series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The stupidity of Grimm, part n in an ongoing series<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","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=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}