{"id":276,"date":"2003-07-02T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T07:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/02\/banzai\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T00:44:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T07:44:37","slug":"banzai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/02\/banzai\/","title":{"rendered":"BANZAI!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh. My. God. The Fox network is getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/banzai\/\" target=\"_blank\">BANZAI<\/a>.                 When you click on the site, please avert your eyes at first,                 as the color scheme is quite wacky.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very much in favor of New York&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/3031914.stm\" target=\"_blank\">ban                   of soft drinks and sweets<\/a> in the elementary and junior-high                   schools, especially with our nation&#8217;s obesity epidemic. Sure,                   kids can get sweets really easily anyway, but the road to early-onset                   diabetes shouldn&#8217;t be a federally-mandated program. Now, Kraft                   Foods, currently under a lawsuit <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3025259.stm\" target=\"_blank\">claiming                   Oreo&#8217;s contain a life-threatening ingredient<\/a>, is<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3036924.stm\" target=\"_blank\"> limiting                   the size of its snack foods<\/a> to do its part towards fighting                   the obesity epidemic in the United States. Still, avoiding                   this prepackaged crap altogether does wonders for human health.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeshops.com\/americanapology.6120915?zoom=yes#zoom\" target=\"_blank\"> American                   Traveler International Apology T-shirt<\/a> makes a great gift                   for the activist in the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/02\/banzai\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh. My. God. The Fox network is getting BANZAI. When you click on the site, please avert your eyes at first, as the color scheme is quite wacky. I&#8217;m very much in favor of New York&#8217;s recent ban of soft drinks and sweets in the elementary and junior-high schools, especially with our nation&#8217;s obesity epidemic. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/02\/banzai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BANZAI!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/02\/banzai\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-organic","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}