{"id":10028,"date":"2011-06-25T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10028"},"modified":"2011-06-25T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T16:23:35","slug":"how-very-lucky-we-humans-are-in-that-all-other-animals-are-so-goddamn-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/25\/how-very-lucky-we-humans-are-in-that-all-other-animals-are-so-goddamn-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How very lucky we humans are in that all other animals are so goddamn stupid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think my niece mentioned this show over dinner the other night. <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthcheckraise.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/and-only-purple-hat-was-left-to-slowly.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ilkka<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I recently watched two episodes of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Swamp_People\" target=\"_blank\">Swamp People<\/a>&#8220;, another low-budget realimentary that sets the camera to follow people with exciting and physical jobs and edits the result down to a highlights reel of action and drama with some narrative added on top. The show not only reminded me of the essay &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredoneverything.net\/Rednecks.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Rednecks<\/a>&#8221; by Fred Reed, but also of Tommi&#8217;s old observation of how very lucky we humans are in that all other animals are so goddamn stupid, really just simple and predictable automata. Armed with but a boat, a baited hook and a shotgun, these fellows hunt, kill and pile up 500-pound prehistoric monsters that will then be given a more useful and productive existence as delicious meat, suitcases and boots. Come on, you can&#8217;t tell me that this show doesn&#8217;t beat the initially amusing but then later just repetitive and a little bit too obviously scripted &#8220;Pawn Stars&#8221; any day&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my niece mentioned this show over dinner the other night. Ilkka explains: I recently watched two episodes of &#8220;Swamp People&#8220;, another low-budget realimentary that sets the camera to follow people with exciting and physical jobs and edits the result down to a highlights reel of action and drama with some narrative added on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-10028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-realitytv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2BK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10029,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions\/10029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}