{"id":385,"date":"2003-05-05T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-05T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=385"},"modified":"2003-05-05T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-05T13:51:00","slug":"i-can-dream-cant-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-05\/385-i-can-dream-cant-i","title":{"rendered":"I can DREAM, can’t I??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas-based sumrsnightdream<\/a> wrote that she lives about 15 minutes outside the devastation zone caused by the large number of tornadoes that hit Kansas on the weekend.<\/p>\n

I got a giggle out of the CNN story<\/a>, in which they said:<\/p>\n

Eighty-three twisters were sighted in central and southeastern states Sunday evening, said Dick Hainje, a regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
\n“This is a huge, huge outbreak”…<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

“Outbreak”? OUTBREAK???<\/b>
\nOh my God! It’s an outbreak of tornadoes!<\/b> “Eighty-three cases of the deadly Tornado Virus<\/b> were reported…” It’s an epidemic!<\/p>\n

That’s almost as bad as the “rash of Fender Benders”<\/b> that gets reported about the highways and byways during a winter storm.<\/p>\n

It is my dream<\/b> that one day people will learn how to stop mangling the English Language… Well, I can DREAM<\/b>, can’t I??<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kansas-based sumrsnightdream wrote that she lives about 15 minutes outside the devastation zone caused by the large number of tornadoes that hit Kansas on the weekend. I got a giggle out of the CNN story, in which they said: Eighty-three … Continue reading →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}