{"id":23903,"date":"2016-07-01T12:56:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23903"},"modified":"2016-07-01T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:57:34","slug":"perhaps-the-funniest-post-brexit-tantrum-yet-courtesy-of-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23903\/perhaps-the-funniest-post-brexit-tantrum-yet-courtesy-of-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps the Funniest Post-Brexit Tantrum Yet, Courtesy of The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this<\/a> apparently passes as intelligent commentary among The New York Times<\/em> set and tantrum-throwing “Remain” pajama boy<\/a> voters in Britain.<\/p>\n

Namely, a perpetual adolescent who acknowledges:<\/p>\n

Since my late teens, every effort I have ever exerted has been with the intention of escaping Alresford. \u00a0And yet, I am an early-career academic and so I am forced to move back, every summer, to live with my parents because I cannot afford to pay rent elsewhere after my temporary teaching contract ends.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nevertheless, he openly fantasizes about its utter obliteration and return to a state of nature, lamenting the area’s “Brexit” vote to declare independence from the European Union:<\/p>\n

Sometimes, in the summer, I walk up the hill and I look out over it, the housing development on one side and the Georgian town center at the bottom of the other, and I have this fantasy image of how it once was, before Alresford was founded in the Middle Ages, when all of this was untouched: \u00a0just the wild, untamed nature that it keeps wanting to turn itself back into. \u00a0And sometimes, I think: \u00a0I wish that would happen. \u00a0Because all that humans have ever done here is ruin things. \u00a0Alresford is my personal hell.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The poor soul.<\/p>\n

Conspicuously, however, he doesn’t volunteer himself to stand first in line in his little return-to-nature scrubbing of humanity from the land.<\/p>\n

‘Twas ever thus with leftists, of course. \u00a0Always let someone else endure the consequences of their dystopian visions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So this apparently passes as intelligent commentary among The New York Times set and tantrum-throwing “Remain” pajama boy voters in Britain. Namely, a perpetual adolescent who acknowledges: Since my late teens, every effort I have ever exerted has been with the intention of escaping Alresford. \u00a0And yet, I am an early-career academic and so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4891,405,372,251],"class_list":["post-23903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-european-union","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23905,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903\/revisions\/23905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}