{"id":29974,"date":"2011-06-22T22:28:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T02:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=29974"},"modified":"2020-06-26T22:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T02:28:39","slug":"im-amused-by-the-symbolism-somewhere-in-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=29974","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m amused by the symbolism somewhere in this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/213-p5zkA2s?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Long story short \u2013 bald eagle drops dead deer carcass on power lines, knocks out power to entire Montana neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Despite being an American icon, that was a dick move by this bald eagle. This situation is akin to a child or a senior citizen committing a crime; the eagle cannot be reprimanded for its detrimental actions, because it\u2019s an endangered species, as well as a symbol of America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">If I were a bald eagle, I\u2019d do this shit all the time. Nothing screams \u201cowned\u201d like being able to pull off shit like dropping dead animals onto power lines, convertibles, bedroom balconies, or the middle of children\u2019s playgrounds, being completely guilty of such actions, but with nobody capable of being able to do jack shit about it. Talk about being able to put American society in handcuffs in that regard. Wake up in the morning, it\u2019s a beautiful day, you decide to pop the top off the Toyota Solara, and you\u2019re driving into work, and then plop, a fucking dead fawn, or prairie dog dropped right into the passenger seat, where it bounces, jostles against the radio and turns it onto a radio station conveniently playing John Mellencamp\u2019s \u201c<em>This is Our Country<\/em>,\u201d while the bald eagle above lets out a triumphant wail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short \u2013 bald eagle drops dead deer carcass on power lines, knocks out power to entire Montana neighborhood. Despite being an American icon, that was a dick move by this bald eagle. This situation is akin to a child or a senior citizen committing a crime; the eagle cannot be reprimanded for its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=29974\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I\u2019m amused by the symbolism somewhere in this<\/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":[15,52],"class_list":["post-29974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29975,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974\/revisions\/29975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}