{"id":31578,"date":"2017-09-18T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31578"},"modified":"2017-09-18T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:58:08","slug":"are-we-sure-we-want-to-go-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31578","title":{"rendered":"Are We Sure We Want To Go Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/09\/18\/cotton-is-now-at-risk-of-being-banned-because-its-somehow-racist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article today about someone protesting a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hobby Lobby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbylobby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Hobby Lobby<\/a> decoration. The decoration had nothing to do with the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Christianity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Christian faith<\/a> of the owners or their views on marriage&#8211;it was a piece of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cotton\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cotton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">cotton<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The objection was posted on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.4848,-122.1484&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=37.4848,-122.1484 (Facebook)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Facebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cotton.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cotton.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cotton.png 544w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cotton-254x300.png 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a>The article includes some of the reaction:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The post received close to 15,000 shares and 160,000 comments. The user, Daniell Rider, then received backlash for her sensitivity and responded to her critics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><i> <iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/10519169\/Opinion\/Opinion_Articles_7\" style=\"border-style: none; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/10519169\/Opinion\/Opinion_Articles_7\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe> All those who are offended by cotton being a decoration need to quit buying any product made of cotton!<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>And other users quickly came to her defense, one adding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><i>What difference does it make if it\u2019s a decoration or part of a product. You\u2019re being hypocritical if your offended by cotton being a decoration and not offended by any product made of cotton.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Brutal grammar aside, these people are actually serious. They legitimately want consumers everywhere to stop buying cotton products because cotton \u201cracist.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many Americans have lost their ability to reason and replaced it with a giant ability to be offended!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller posted an article today about someone protesting a Hobby Lobby decoration. The decoration had nothing to do with the Christian faith of the owners or their views on marriage&#8211;it was a piece of cotton! The objection was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31578\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[11099,1022,4624,7015],"class_list":["post-31578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cotton","tag-facebook","tag-hobby-lobby","tag-the-daily-caller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31580,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578\/revisions\/31580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}