{"id":327,"date":"2006-02-24T08:28:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=327"},"modified":"2006-02-24T08:28:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T15:28:34","slug":"those-psas-bring-out-the-evil-in-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/02\/24\/those-psas-bring-out-the-evil-in-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Those PSAs bring out the Evil in me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004093\"><\/a>There&#8217;s a new set of anti-drug public service announcement that have been playing on the radio as of late.<\/p>\n<p>First the scene is set.  We have a set of 13-16 year olds at a standard social. #1 &#8220;How&#8217;d you hear about my party?&#8221;  &#8220;Everybody knows about this party.&#8221;  &#8220;Yeah.  Pretty crazy, huh?&#8221;  &#8220;Totally.&#8221; #2: &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe you got tickets to this show.&#8221;  &#8220;Yeah.  Pretty crazy band, huh?&#8221;  &#8220;Totally.&#8221;  #3 (and my favourite):  &#8220;Thanks for giving me a ride.&#8221;  &#8220;Hey.  No problem.  Just because you&#8217;re a sophomore doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t talk to you.&#8221;  (uh.  huh.  The PSAers are laying it on pretty thick here, aren&#8217;t they?  Sorry, I can&#8217;t sneak in a &#8220;pretty crazy&#8221; &#8220;totally&#8221; into that set up.)<\/p>\n<p>Next, the drug is offered.  For #1, #2, and #3, we have: &#8220;Hey!  Wanna get high?&#8221;  (For some reason the background music at the party and at the concert just stops dead right here.)  &#8220;This is some good stuff.  You&#8217;ll like this.  Here you go.&#8221;  AND &#8212; the response: &#8220;UH&#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The voice-over comes in with a &#8220;This is the time your guidance can help your kids say no to drugs.  Call for a free pamphlet!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But in my mind, I can&#8217;t help but think:  &#8220;Toke!  Toke!  Toke!  Toke!  Toke!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My question: <i>Does that make me evil?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new set of anti-drug public service announcement that have been playing on the radio as of late. First the scene is set. We have a set of 13-16 year olds at a standard social. #1 &#8220;How&#8217;d you hear about my party?&#8221; &#8220;Everybody knows about this party.&#8221; &#8220;Yeah. Pretty crazy, huh?&#8221; &#8220;Totally.&#8221; #2: &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}