{"id":559,"date":"2006-05-16T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T12:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2006-05-16T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T12:46:19","slug":"the_idiots_rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/16\/the_idiots_rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idiots Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the following is a bit of a departure from this week&#8217;s <a title=\"Talkin\u2019 Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/05\/talkin_books\/\">Talkin&#8217; Books<\/a> theme, but it&#8217;s so in line with my general philosophy that I thought it bore immediate repeating here. From a blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/hooptyrides.blogspot.com\">Hooptyrides<\/a> comes <a href=\"http:\/\/hooptyrides.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/idiots-rule.html\">the Idiots Rule<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8211;Mr. Jalopy<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, that about says it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Ed. note: Actually, on re-reading the source of this quote I see that the original entry was actually &#8220;Idiots Rule,&#8221; not &#8220;<i>The<\/i> Idiots Rule.&#8221; That puts a slightly different spin on things, doesn&#8217;t it? Oh well, I still agree with the sentiment&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the following is a bit of a departure from this week&#8217;s Talkin&#8217; Books theme, but it&#8217;s so in line with my general philosophy that I thought it bore immediate repeating here. From a blog called Hooptyrides comes the Idiots Rule: Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-old-man-throwing-rocks-at-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}