{"id":143,"date":"2008-08-16T09:06:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T13:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/08\/16\/gum-must-die\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T13:06:37","slug":"gum-must-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"gum must die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is wrong with people?<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that activities considered totally uncouth with &#8220;normal&#8221; chewing is thrown out the window when people chew gum?<\/p>\n<p>When you chew food, you chew with your mouth shut.<\/p>\n<p>When you chew food, you don&#8217;t crack it.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t blow bubbles.<\/p>\n<p>But when people chew gum, they feel the need to chew it all day, like cows, and crack it every few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>I hate gum because people that chew it are [almost] all assholes about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be nice if people could have some courtesy around others, but apparently gum chewing is the exception to being polite. Or maybe it&#8217;s just narcissism has risen to the national pastime of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is wrong with people? Why is it that activities considered totally uncouth with &#8220;normal&#8221; chewing is thrown out the window when people chew gum? When you chew food, you chew with your mouth shut. When you chew food, you don&#8217;t crack it. You don&#8217;t blow bubbles. But when people chew gum, they feel the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=143\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">gum must die<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}