{"id":2969,"date":"2015-01-16T21:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2015-01-16T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T19:44:45","slug":"home-of-the-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=2969","title":{"rendered":"Home of the Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see if I understand the state of personal responsibility in modern-day America.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her lap while driving, she blames the restaurant.<\/li>\n<li>If your teen-age son kills himself, you blame the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll musician he liked.<\/li>\n<li>If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years and die of lung cancer your family blames the tobacco company.<\/li>\n<li>If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain you blame the school for poor sex education.<\/li>\n<li>If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, you blame the bartender.<\/li>\n<li>If your cousin gets AIDS because the needle he used to shoot heroin was dirty, you blame the government for not providing clean ones.<\/li>\n<li>If your grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame television.<\/li>\n<li>And, if your friend is shot by a deranged madman, you blame the gun manufacturer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>God bless America, land of the free, home of the blame.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see if I understand the state of personal responsibility in modern-day America. If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her lap while driving, she blames the restaurant. If your teen-age son kills himself, you blame the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll musician he liked. If you smoke three packs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[131,247],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional","tag-america","tag-blame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}