{"id":149552,"date":"2023-11-10T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149552"},"modified":"2023-11-09T19:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T00:44:51","slug":"weekend-open-thread-470","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149552","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hammering-the-head-treating-elections-as-popularity-contests.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-149553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hammering-the-head-treating-elections-as-popularity-contests-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hammering-the-head-treating-elections-as-popularity-contests-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hammering-the-head-treating-elections-as-popularity-contests-446x333.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hammering-the-head-treating-elections-as-popularity-contests-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hammering-the-head-treating-elections-as-popularity-contests.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This appears to be a scene from the Book of Judges. The man being overthrown rushes into a tent in an attempt to hide from his pursuers. The woman in the tent ends up hammering a tent nail through his head. The meme pokes fun at people voting for candidates based on their appeal rather than on their qualifications&#8230; Then they wonder why they get crappy results. The leftist that posted this meme missed the point and assumed that the one who came up with the meme is against democracy. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy Your Weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This appears to be a scene from the Book of Judges. The man being overthrown rushes &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149552\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}