{"id":1238,"date":"2010-07-11T17:42:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T23:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2010-07-11T17:49:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T23:49:50","slug":"deep-in-the-midst-of-redneckfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Deep in the midst of Redneckfest"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you may or may not have heard of the Calgary Stampede<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, you may or may not care.\u00a0 I for one do not.\u00a0 I don’t like 99.99999% of Country Music and I don’t fancy cowboy culture, attire, mannerisms, or anything else associated with cowpoke folk and local yokels smoking yolk over oak and soaking coke to invoke and evoke some bloke who jokes baroque and provokes a choke so stoked it tokes with a moke.<\/p>\n

Dig?<\/p>\n

Apologies to most of the other people who live but were not born in Calgary, this is what the “Stampede” looks like to me.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd this:<\/p>\n

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\nAnd this:<\/p>\n

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\nArtery clogging AND phallic!<\/p>\n

And wasn’t there a movie about gay cowboys?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I do not relish (that’s a fast food joke) the thought of being around in this city for the 10 days of the year when everyone not born here pretends to be a cowboy or a cowgirl.\u00a0 And all the rough-hewn rustic wood making signs to sell soda and junk food, and all the bales of hay brought in to decorate parking lots, and all the country music piped everywhere things are sold just make me sad.<\/p>\n

So, I resist.\u00a0 Ha!<\/p>\n

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\nI’m mikeifying some Ozzy (again) right now and I’m mindlessly random-paging through Wikipedia looking for historical topics to read.\u00a0 And soon I will update FembotWiki.\u00a0 And then my short weekend is done.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n

At least I have another week of fat, stupid, tackily dressed tourists in my way to look forward to.<\/p>\n

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Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So you may or may not have heard of the Calgary Stampede.\u00a0 Also, you may or may not care.\u00a0 I for one do not.\u00a0 I don’t like 99.99999% of Country Music and I don’t fancy cowboy culture, attire, mannerisms, or anything else associated with cowpoke folk and local yokels smoking yolk over oak and soaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[86,359,345,358,356,357],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-complaining","tag-cowboys","tag-ozzy","tag-rednecks","tag-stampede","tag-tourists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}