{"id":817,"date":"2008-04-22T09:07:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2008-07-20T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T23:00:28","slug":"im-not-an-ageist-but-i-play-one-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not An Ageist, But I Play One On YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide whether it&#8217;s discriminatory of me to laugh at this or not. On one hand, I don&#8217;t think that there should necessarily be limits placed on public office based on age, particularly since my own father is both <strong>a)<\/strong> a respected gerontologist and <strong>b)<\/strong> older than dirt, and he raised me better than that.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the only person I&#8217;d want in the White House less than John McCain is the yutz who&#8217;s already there. And it <em>is<\/em> pretty amusing. I&#8217;ll let you decide.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"play\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RhYfmM1QFxk\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RhYfmM1QFxk\" play=\"false\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide whether it&#8217;s discriminatory of me to laugh at this or not. On one hand, I don&#8217;t think that there should necessarily be limits placed on public office based on age, particularly since my own father is both a) a respected gerontologist and b) older than dirt, and he raised me better than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}