{"id":52293,"date":"2022-07-18T00:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T00:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52293"},"modified":"2022-07-18T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T00:27:12","slug":"end-of-roe-brings-new-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52293","title":{"rendered":"End of Roe brings new idiocy"},"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>Idiocy can present itself in sometimes surprising forms, such as when a pregnant woman drives her vehicle in a &#8220;high-occupancy vehicle&#8221; lane, asserting that the baby in her womb is a &#8220;second person&#8221; in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, she argues, she is entitled to drive in the HOV lane.<\/p>\n<p>Nonsense. Bullsh**. Horse pucky.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re getting some of that idiocy these days in Texas as individuals are reacting to the overturning of the Roe v. Wade abortion decision. A woman who is about to give birth to a child decided the other day to flout a rule requiring two people or more are allowed to ride in an HOV vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>This is an example of political grandstanding run amok. It&#8217;s nothing more than a stunt that &#8212; and this is weird &#8212; could eventually find its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>I shudder to think what this court, comprising a 6-3 super conservative right-wing majority, would do with this form of idiocy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Idiocy can present itself in sometimes surprising forms, such as when a pregnant woman drives her vehicle in a &#8220;high-occupancy vehicle&#8221; lane, asserting that the baby in her womb is a &#8220;second person&#8221; in the vehicle. Therefore, she argues, she is entitled to drive in the HOV lane. Nonsense. Bullsh**. Horse pucky. We&#8217;re getting some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of Roe brings new idiocy<\/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":[9],"tags":[9956,3998,6363],"class_list":["post-52293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-hov-lane","tag-roe-v-wade","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52293","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=52293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52294,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52293\/revisions\/52294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}