{"id":165,"date":"2008-08-06T06:47:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-08-06T06:47:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:47:38","slug":"ignorance-with-an-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2008\/08\/06\/ignorance-with-an-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"ignorance with an attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mind people not knowing things. I don&#8217;t mind ignorance per se. It&#8217;s when people get all uppity without researching it. Adam sent me a youtube video about a woman who believes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Sq-VmBMHkw\">rainbows formed by sprinklers<\/a> is a sign that there&#8217;s chemicals in our water and ground. When I started bicycling I got shit from a cop car (for riding in the middle lane. I can&#8217;t find a post about it, weird) and from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=156\">cars wanting me on the sidewalk<\/a>, so I went and checked out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicyclealliance.org\/safety\/rcwlaw.html\">washington bicycle laws<\/a> to educate myself.<\/p>\n<p>Carl has some magnets in his garage that read &#8220;Yellow Card&#8221; and say something like &#8220;this magnet is affixed to your car because a motorcyclist believed you did something unsafe while driving.&#8221; I kind of think I want a pile of RCW 46.61.770 magnets.<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown to the ID bus station was about two honks today. Average is probably 1.5. Earlier this week Ginger made a comment about how people weren&#8217;t honking, and within a couple minutes of discussing it someone did. No wood to knock on.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, what is it that drives people to be so sure of being in the right? I suppose it&#8217;s much easier on them to have a huge ego than take responsibility and realize they aren&#8217;t the center of the universe, for realz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mind people not knowing things. I don&#8217;t mind ignorance per se. It&#8217;s when people get all uppity without researching it. Adam sent me a youtube video about a woman who believes rainbows formed by sprinklers is a sign that there&#8217;s chemicals in our water and ground. When I started bicycling I got shit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}