{"id":4124,"date":"2006-06-18T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:59:19","slug":"war-on-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2006\/06\/18\/war-on-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"War on Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/blogbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; If the President can wage a war on an abstract noun<b>*<\/b>, then why can&#8217;t I?<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Apparently our teachers are too busy leaving no child behind than actually teaching those children simple English.  How else to explain the consistently poor spelling and grammar evident all over the Internet.  In hopes of alleviating at least some small part of these eyesores, may I present the opening salvo in my War on Stupidity.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Children, please pay attention.<CENTER><TABLE STYLE = \"margin: 10px; border:1px solid black;\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><TR><TD WIDTH = \"70%\" STYLE = \"padding: 15px\" ><font face=\"courier, times new roman, serif\" size=\"4\"><b>Lose<\/b>: be deprived of, or cease to have or retain something<br><b>Loose<\/b>: not firmly or tightly fixed in place<\/TD><\/TR><\/TABLE><\/CENTER>&nbsp; &nbsp; Note that these are two different words and are not interchangeable.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>*<\/b>As Terry Jones puts it in his book <i>War on the War on Terror<\/i>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; If the President can wage a war on an abstract noun*, then why can&#8217;t I?&nbsp; &nbsp; Apparently our teachers are too busy leaving no child behind than actually teaching those children simple English. How else to explain the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2006\/06\/18\/war-on-stupidity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-books","category-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}