{"id":1561,"date":"2009-10-12T13:21:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2009\/10\/12\/bullshit-columbus-day\/"},"modified":"2014-10-14T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:11:11","slug":"bullshit-columbus-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2009\/10\/12\/bullshit-columbus-day\/","title":{"rendered":"i don&#8217;t celebrate bullshit columbus day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~ you probably do not know that today is &#8216;columbus day&#8217;, because you don&#8217;t have the day off from work and are busy flipping through wall treatment catalogues or tracing handrails in autocad, and google didn&#8217;t put up a cute doodle of an &#8216;italian&#8217; driving his sword into a caribbean beach. however, there is some nobody in alaska who wants to make sure you forget(?):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have a very large Alaska native population, so just the whole Columbus being the founder of the United States, doesn&#8217;t sit well with a lot of people, myself included,&#8221; said Paul Prussing, deputy director of Alaska&#8217;s Division of Teaching and Learning Support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;or with anyone who has read a history book that makes clear that columbus died more than 280 years before the united states was (<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1794\">were<\/a>?) founded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ you probably do not know that today is &#8216;columbus day&#8217;, because you don&#8217;t have the day off from work and are busy flipping through wall treatment catalogues or tracing handrails in autocad, and google didn&#8217;t put up a cute doodle of an &#8216;italian&#8217; driving his sword into a caribbean beach. however, there is some [&hellip;]<\/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":[54,41,15],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-holiday","tag-media","tag-quote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}