{"id":118,"date":"2007-02-03T14:16:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T22:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/03\/the-dumbing-down-of-america\/"},"modified":"2007-02-03T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T22:18:39","slug":"the-dumbing-down-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/offbeat\/the-dumbing-down-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Dumbing Down of America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how the source titles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general75\/court.htm\" title=\"courtroom humor\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>. It&#8217;s said to be actual courtroom testimony, taken down by &#8220;court reporters who had the torment   of staying calm and quiet while these exchanges were actually taking place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some examples:<\/p>\n<p>ATTORNEY : What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?<br \/>\nWITNESS : Gucci sweats and Reeboks.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>ATTORNEY : Are you sexually active?<br \/>\nWITNESS : No, I just lie there.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>ATTORNEY : So the date of conception of the baby was August 8th?<br \/>\nWITNESS : Yes.<br \/>\nATTORNEY : And what were you doing at that time?<br \/>\nWITNESS : Uh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general75\/court.htm\" title=\"courtroom humor\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how the source titles this page. It&#8217;s said to be actual courtroom testimony, taken down by &#8220;court reporters who had the torment of staying calm and quiet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}