{"id":50678,"date":"2023-12-15T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50678"},"modified":"2023-12-14T08:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T13:50:48","slug":"qotd-delayed-onset-adulthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/12\/15\/qotd-delayed-onset-adulthood\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Delayed onset adulthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t even get me started on supposedly-adult men of voting age who are infatuated with <em>My Little Pony<\/em> (a.k.a. &#8220;Bronies&#8221;). Great Napoleon&#8217;s bleeding ulcers, it actually turns my stomach to read about these fucking losers.<\/p>\n<p>At the risk of sounding all White Christian Male and stuff [<em>irony alert<\/em>], allow me to remind everyone of this excellent precept from Corinthians:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Except that men aren&#8217;t doing any of that. Instead, they&#8217;re clinging to the artifacts of their childhood, hoping that Mommy will be there to keep the Big Bad Wolf\/Zombies away.<\/p>\n<p>What will inevitably happen is calamity. As Charles Norman puts it: &#8220;<em>The world is running out of grown-ups. It will probably take tragedies and a prolonged era of diminished affluence for people to grow up<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like I said: calamity.<\/p>\n<p>Kim du Toit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2019\/08\/22\/kiddies\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Kiddies&#8221;, <em>Splendid Isolation<\/em><\/a>, 2019-08-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t even get me started on supposedly-adult men of voting age who are infatuated with My Little Pony (a.k.a. &#8220;Bronies&#8221;). Great Napoleon&#8217;s bleeding ulcers, it actually turns my stomach to read about these fucking losers. At the risk of sounding all White Christian Male and stuff [irony alert], allow me to remind everyone of this [&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":[66,28,41,13],"tags":[374,1106,956,139],"class_list":["post-50678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-children","tag-genz","tag-millennials","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dbo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50678","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=50678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86320,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50678\/revisions\/86320"}],"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=50678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}