{"id":2221,"date":"2015-08-02T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T04:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2015-08-02T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T04:36:22","slug":"fucking-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"Fucking Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Canadian team behind HitchBOT announced their robot was going to try to hitch its way across the USA, I had a sinking sensation almost immediately. I thought there was no way that robot would make it safely across the country, because people are assholes. And then I felt kind of bad for assuming people would be assholes, but I figured I&#8217;m not wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2015\/08\/02\/hitchbot-gets-mugged-in-city-of-brotherly-love-en-route-to-san-francisco\/\">I&#8217;m not.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s depressing as hell. This is why we can&#8217;t have nice things, because we&#8217;re one generation away from going full Idiocracy in this country. Would that I could live somewhere that has plenty of fog, plenty of low-key drinking establishments with fireplaces, no cops who need to load up like they&#8217;re trying to take Tora Bora, no NFL and no SEC, someplace where a robot in rubber rain boots can hitch unmolested from coast to coast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But this isn&#8217;t that place, and we&#8217;re worse off for it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Canadian team behind HitchBOT announced their robot was going to try to hitch its way across the USA, I had a sinking sensation almost immediately. I thought there was no way that robot would make it safely across the country, because people are assholes. And then I felt kind of bad for assuming &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=2221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fucking Americans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}