{"id":30671,"date":"2024-09-27T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T18:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=30671"},"modified":"2024-09-27T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T18:21:39","slug":"americans-appear-to-be-getting-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=30671","title":{"rendered":"Americans appear to be getting dumber&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with the furor created by the lies that the idiots trump and vance spewed about Haitian immigrants in Springfield Ohio&#8230;of course the news media did fluff pieces on whether it was real or not&#8230;so they go to Springfield and interview some &#8220;real&#8221; people to see what they think&#8230;and one woman was asked whether she thinks the Haitians were eating cats, dogs, and wildlife&#8230;and she says they could be and she justified that belief by saying &#8220;earlier in the summer there were ducks and geese all over the lakes but look at it now, they are all gone&#8221;&#8230;obviously this women wasn&#8217;t paying attention in science class in grade school&#8230;I learned in 3rd grade about migratory birds and have even observed ducks and geese migrating in the very well know &#8220;v&#8221; formations they use to save energy..okay, that is\u00a0 a little bit of snark but I could have said &#8220;I wonder if there are immigrants here since the geese, ducks, and swans are all gone from Muskegon lake&#8221;&#8230;you see how ridiculous that sounds? Ignorance turned into hatred for no other reason than she saw it on the news&#8230;geez..American appear to be getting dumber&#8230;fast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with the furor created by the lies that the idiots trump and vance spewed about Haitian immigrants in Springfield Ohio&#8230;of course the news media did fluff pieces on whether it was real or not&#8230;so they go to Springfield and interview some &#8220;real&#8221; people to see what they think&#8230;and one woman was asked whether she thinks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=30671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Americans appear to be getting dumber&#8230;<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4045,4044],"class_list":["post-30671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dumb-americans","tag-springfield-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30672,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30671\/revisions\/30672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}