{"id":2522,"date":"2012-12-19T20:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T03:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2018-02-15T23:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:03:27","slug":"are-you-threatening-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2522","title":{"rendered":"Are You Threatening Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2523\" title=\"floridacoinagebeavis\">With the recent mass shootings and the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman incident, the United States Mint has decided to re-issue the Florida state quarter to honor of the state\u2019s &#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; law which states that a person may use necessary force to defend themselves if they ever feel threatened. And who better to represent this wacky law than lovable, cartoon legend Beavis (with apologies to Mike Judge), who is depicted as his paranoid alter ego, the Great Cornholio. NRA spokesmen claim this is a fitting tribute to a nation that truly loves its guns and hopefully will put us one step closer to the apocalyptic world of <em>The Road Warrior<\/em>. Yessirree! Arizona and Florida: leading the country in crazy!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2523\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2523\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2523\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2523\" title=\"floridacoinagebeavis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/floridacoinagebeavis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/floridacoinagebeavis.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/floridacoinagebeavis-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The United States mint has reissued a new state quarter for Florida to honor it&#8217;s &#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; law with a fitting portrait of lovable, cartoon legend Beavis as his no-nonsense, paranoid alter ego, the Great Cornholio, uttering his famous catchphrase, which has coincidentally become the motto for the law&#8217;s supporters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent mass shootings and the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman incident, the United States Mint has decided to re-issue the Florida state quarter to honor of the state\u2019s &#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; law which states that a person may use necessary force to defend themselves if they ever feel threatened. And who better to represent this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are You Threatening Me?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,1687,3,435],"tags":[707,608,22,706,9,118,705,537,21,623,98,19,661,708,437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5843,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/5843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}