{"id":260,"date":"2010-05-10T23:29:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T03:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macphoenix.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2010-05-11T01:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T05:47:06","slug":"im-old-and-new-things-scare-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/im-old-and-new-things-scare-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m old&#8211;and new things scare me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Especially when the new things are hundreds of years old and sound Muslim!*<\/p>\n<p>Found on MSNBC:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/macphoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-10-at-11.10.18-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"261\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/im-old-and-new-things-scare-me\/screen-shot-2010-05-10-at-11-10-18-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-10-at-11.10.18-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"330,127\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen shot 2010-05-10 at 11.10.18 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-10-at-11.10.18-PM.png\" src=\"http:\/\/macphoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-10-at-11.10.18-PM-300x115.png\" alt=\"Headline: &quot;1 in 4 young adults has used a hookah,&quot; from MSNBC website\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-05-10 at 11.10.18 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-10-at-11.10.18-PM-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-10-at-11.10.18-PM.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have no desire to read the story. It may even be positive, since it is believed that hookah smoke is safer than directly inhaling smoke from a burning source, like cigarettes or pipes. But the only reason that this would be a story on a national news site is to freak out the whitebreads who think that hookahs can only be used for illegal drugs and would only be used by alien cultures.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell anyone that some young people eat hummus and wear pajamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Especially when the new things are hundreds of years old and sound Muslim!* Found on MSNBC: I have no desire to read the story. It may even be positive, since it is believed that hookah smoke is safer than directly inhaling smoke from a burning source, like cigarettes or pipes. But the only reason that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[45,46],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-seen-in-media","category-rant","tag-im-white-and-im-scared","tag-media-scares"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nj3d-4c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}