{"id":313,"date":"2008-08-13T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T09:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-08-13T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T09:32:10","slug":"animal_house_via_hp_lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Animal House, via H.P. Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nRead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/ag\/speeches\/2008\/ag-speech-0808121.html\">this<\/a> and then contemplate the meaning of the phrase &#8220;Frathouse America.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI half expect the Attorney General to go up there and say &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, I&#8217;ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests &#8211; we did. But you can&#8217;t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn&#8217;t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn&#8217;t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg &#8211; isn&#8217;t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we&#8217;re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this and then contemplate the meaning of the phrase &#8220;Frathouse America.&#8221; I half expect the Attorney General to go up there and say &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, I&#8217;ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests &#8211; we did. But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Animal House, via H.P. Lovecraft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}