{"id":3837,"date":"2015-10-11T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T00:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2015-10-11T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T00:05:20","slug":"glad-to-know-im-not-alone-when-i-notice-nonsensical-assertions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/glad-to-know-im-not-alone-when-i-notice-nonsensical-assertions\/","title":{"rendered":"Glad to know I&#8217;m not alone when I notice nonsensical assertions&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I really hate is when the news &#8216;reports&#8217; on something that instantly sets off my B.S. meter, and I appear to not only be among the few people that notice something awry, but am actually labelled &#8216;sexist&#8217;, &#8216;insensitive&#8217;, or &#8216;difficult&#8217; for calling the conclusions into question. Latest example, the perceived &#8216;wage gap&#8217; between men and women. Fortunately, a guy named Maddox decided to put a lot more effort into answering my concerns than my lazy ass was willing to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(If you didn&#8217;t already know, Maddox is a long-time blogger that runs <a href=\"http:\/\/maddox.xmission.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Best Page In The Universe<\/a> as well as his own YouTube channel. I came across it in &#8217;99, and it is highly recommended reading!)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BDj_bN0L8XM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I really hate is when the news &#8216;reports&#8217; on something that instantly sets off my B.S. meter, and I appear to not only be among the few people that notice something awry, but am actually labelled &#8216;sexist&#8217;, &#8216;insensitive&#8217;, or &#8216;difficult&#8217; for calling the conclusions into question. Latest example, the perceived &#8216;wage gap&#8217; between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,20,22,4,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}