{"id":823,"date":"2007-06-30T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T04:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/823"},"modified":"2007-06-30T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T04:23:40","slug":"another-reason-to-hate-the-mpaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/823","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason To Hate The MPAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing my poor little blog isn&#8217;t trying to get into theaters nationwide&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mingle2.com\/blog-rating\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Online Dating\" src=\"http:\/\/mingle2.com\/img\/bb\/blog_rating\/nc-17.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/mingle2.com\/blog-rating\">The Blog Rater<\/a>, this little blog merited this rating because of&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>gay (26x)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>hell (5x)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>dead (2x)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>crack (1x)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">What the hell&#8230;???&nbsp; Crack?&nbsp; I double checked and it was <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/807\">my post about the right wing monopoly on talk radio<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">The Bush Administration crack down a couple years ago on broadcast indecency was usually taken to be a bone tossed at it&#8217;s fundamentalist base.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>That&#8217;s not a reference to crack cocaine you drooling morons!<\/em>&nbsp; You&#8217;ll never see me advocating the use of that poison here.&nbsp; And why the hell (whoops&#8230;I said it again&#8230;dang&#8230;) is the word &quot;gay&quot; something impressionable kids shouldn&#8217;t be exposed to?&nbsp; I&#8217;m a gay man.&nbsp; Right?&nbsp; Okay&#8230;fine.&nbsp; Gay.&nbsp; Gay.&nbsp; Gay.&nbsp; Gay.&nbsp; Now I have 32 instances of the word to count against my poor blog.&nbsp; Oh&#8230;and five for crack.&nbsp; Uh&#8230;six.&nbsp; Aw&#8230;fuck it .&nbsp; Whoops.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But you know what&#8230;this is exactly the kind of jackass way the MPAA rates movies anyway.&nbsp; So I guess you won&#8217;t be seeing ads for <em>The Story So Far<\/em> in your local newspaper&#8217;s movieguide anytime soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing my poor little blog isn&#8217;t trying to get into theaters nationwide&#8230; According to The Blog Rater, this little blog merited this rating because of&#8230; gay (26x) hell (5x) dead (2x) crack (1x) What the hell&#8230;???&nbsp; Crack?&nbsp; I double checked and it was my post about the right wing monopoly on talk radio&#8230; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,19],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}