{"id":4347,"date":"2013-12-30T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2013-12-30T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:26:02","slug":"phil-back-on-duck-dynasty-curiosity-aroused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4347","title":{"rendered":"Phil back on &#8216;Duck Dynasty,&#8217; curiosity aroused"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Having declared that I&#8217;ve never watched &#8220;Duck Dynasty,&#8221; I now might &#8212; let me reiterate <em>might<\/em> &#8212; catch an episode or two now that Duck daddy Phil is back in the game.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com\/2013\/12\/that-phil-guy-is-back-on-duck-dynasty-so-do-i-have-to-watch-it-now.html\/<\/p>\n<p>A&amp;E lifted Phil Robertson&#8217;s short-lived suspension after the 67-year-old guy said some things to GQ magazine about how he believes homosexuality is a sin, according to the Bible. His comments raised an uproar with the LGBT community and with folks who were offended that someone known to be a devout Christian actually would say what he believes.<\/p>\n<p>A&amp;E knew what it was getting when it hired the Robertson clan to do this show, which I guess features them huntin&#8217; and fishin&#8217; and living in the great outdoors, aka the Louisiana swamp.<\/p>\n<p>A&amp;E made the wrong call, in my view, in suspending ol&#8217; man Phil. It&#8217;s not that agree with the way he expressed himself. He spoke crudely to GQ, but that&#8217;s part of his shtick, or so I&#8217;ve been led to believe.<\/p>\n<p>And the network knew all that.<\/p>\n<p>All he did was encourage the audience that is drawn to the show. Those who Robertson offended aren&#8217;t going to watch anyway.<\/p>\n<p>As for those of us out here who only have read about the show and followed the kerfuffle created by Duck Daddy&#8217;s remarks, many of us are quite likely now to watch just to see what all the fuss has been about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m giving this some serious thought. I&#8217;ll let you know what I learn.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having declared that I&#8217;ve never watched &#8220;Duck Dynasty,&#8221; I now might &#8212; let me reiterate might &#8212; catch an episode or two now that Duck daddy Phil is back in the game. http:\/\/dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com\/2013\/12\/that-phil-guy-is-back-on-duck-dynasty-so-do-i-have-to-watch-it-now.html\/ A&amp;E lifted Phil Robertson&#8217;s short-lived suspension after the 67-year-old guy said some things to GQ magazine about how he believes homosexuality is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phil back on &#8216;Duck Dynasty,&#8217; curiosity aroused<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,1475,2775,3587],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ae","tag-duck-dynasty","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-phil-robertson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}