{"id":1487,"date":"2010-02-15T07:50:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:02:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:02:27","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/02\/whats-in-a-name.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In a Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that what you call something makes a bigger difference than you might hope.\u00a0 A <a title=\"News Poll\" href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/new-poll-shows-support-for-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell\/?hp\" target=\"_self\">new New York Times\/CBS News poll<\/a> asked if Gays and Lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military.\u00a0 6 in 10 were in favor.\u00a0 In theory this should bode well for repealing the Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell policy.<\/p>\n<p>But wait&#8230; the organization then re-ran the poll with the same demographic and asked if homosexuals should be allowed to serve openly.\u00a0 This time, only 4 in 10 were in favor.\u00a0\u00a0 Presumably this means that somewhere around a fifth of Americans are thinking they&#8217;re okay with Gays and Lesbians, as long as they&#8217;re not the homosexual kind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And isn&#8217;t it just like the damned homosexual Gays to go and ruin it for all the other ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that what you call something makes a bigger difference than you might hope.\u00a0 A new New York<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/02\/whats-in-a-name.html\" title=\"Read What&#8217;s In a Name?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madscience","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}