{"id":44426,"date":"2018-08-28T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44426"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:02:13","slug":"qotd-being-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/28\/qotd-being-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Being <em>woke<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I suppose the woke-lings\u2019 signature shunning and hair-trigger indignation makes a kind of sense if you bear in mind the fact that being woke is largely about <em>pretending<\/em>. It\u2019s a world of vanity and make-believe. And so, if someone in the vicinity isn\u2019t willing to pretend &#8211; or worse, says \u201cHey, these guys are pretending\u201d &#8211; then the collective pretence, and all of the pretenders, are in danger of being revealed.<\/p>\n<p>And so everyone must play, or be blocked, or immediately denounced.<\/p>\n<p>David Thompson, commenting on <a href=\"http:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2018\/08\/shatner-you-monster.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e2022ad3611b9c200c#comment-6a00d83451675669e2022ad3611b9c200c\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shatner, You Monster&#8221;, <em>David Thompson<\/em><\/a>, 2018-08-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose the woke-lings\u2019 signature shunning and hair-trigger indignation makes a kind of sense if you bear in mind the fact that being woke is largely about pretending. It\u2019s a world of vanity and make-believe. And so, if someone in the vicinity isn\u2019t willing to pretend &#8211; or worse, says \u201cHey, these guys are pretending\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[53,41],"tags":[1020,593],"class_list":["post-44426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-progressives","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-byy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44426","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=44426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44427,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44426\/revisions\/44427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}