{"id":797,"date":"2004-03-23T18:50:04","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T23:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/silly_quick_hits\/"},"modified":"2004-03-23T18:50:04","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T23:50:04","slug":"silly_quick_hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/silly_quick_hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly Quick Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>West Virginia Governor Bob Wise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/news\/local\/virginia\/dp-sou--t-shirttussle0322mar22,0,2455108,print.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia\">gets worked up over a T-shirt<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Bob Wise sent a letter to Abercrombie &#038; Fitch on Monday demanding that the clothing retailer stop selling a T-shirt that spoofs the state with the slogan, &#8220;It&#8217;s All Relative in West Virginia.&#8221; Wise said the T-shirt depicts &#8220;an unfounded, negative stereotype of West Virginia.&#8221; &#8220;I write to you today to demand that you immediately remove this item from your stores and your print and online catalogues,&#8221; Wise wrote. &#8220;In addition, these shirts must be destroyed at once to avoid any possibility of resale and proof be given thereof.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can appreciate the governor&#8217;s interest in his state&#8217;s reputation, but it&#8217;s a T-shirt.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/archives\/001930.php\">Wizbang!<\/a>, some loser got in over his head and is now <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.ca\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=3805129407&amp;category=46685\">trying to auction his debt<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m sorry for buying things I didn&#8217;t need, doing things I didn&#8217;t have to do and I&#8217;m sorry for buying into the notion that I need material things to be happy. I sold the world a lie and the world marked it up and sold it back, and now I&#8217;m asking for your help. If there is anyone out there that has $20,000 sitting around and doesn&#8217;t know what to do with it, don&#8217;t go to the casino, don&#8217;t go and buy things, don&#8217;t add an addition to your mansion, forget about the 24&#8243; rims on your fully loaded Escalade, pass the caviar, pass the dom and the gucci dress. Forget about the rollie or the diamond tennis bracelet. Those things won&#8217;t fill your void, so I&#8217;m asking you to fill mine.<br \/>. . .<br \/>As I receive donations, I will gradually lower my starting price until my debt is paid. I am not a charity case but I am asking for help. I want to give back the money I owe before I set out. I ask and therefore I shall receive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mars Rover <i>Opportunity<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/opportunitygrrl\/\">has a blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/silly_quick_hits\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Silly Quick Hits\"><p>West Virginia Governor Bob Wise gets worked up over a T-shirt: Gov. Bob Wise sent a letter to Abercrombie &#038; Fitch on Monday demanding that the clothing retailer stop selling a T-shirt that spoofs the state with the slogan, &#8220;It&#8217;s All Relative in West Virginia.&#8221; Wise said the T-shirt depicts &#8220;an unfounded, negative stereotype of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}