{"id":96,"date":"2013-10-03T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T11:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2013-10-03T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T11:41:22","slug":"oh-the-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/book\/oh-the-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh the Irony!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Link to BoingBoing.net\" href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a> is one of my favourite websites but occasionally things go a little awry.<\/p>\n<p>A <a title=\"Link to BoingBoing story\" href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/10\/02\/8-year-old-gets-sexist-kids.html\" target=\"_blank\">story there today<\/a> about some 8 year old girl objecting to a series of books for girls and books for boys. I got the sense that she was unhappy with the girls book because of it&#8217;s angle that girls didn&#8217;t like things like camping trips.<\/p>\n<p>BoingBoing has adverts and the one immediately above the story .. well judge for yourself! The advert says &#8220;MALE GAMERS ONLY&#8221;. I&#8217;m sure girls really love this! &lt;\/sarcasm&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.6;\" href=\"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/irony.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97\" alt=\"irony\" src=\"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/irony-272x300.png\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoingBoing is one of my favourite websites but occasionally things go a little awry. A story there today about some 8 year old girl objecting to a series of books for girls and books for boys. I got the sense that she was unhappy with the girls book because of it&#8217;s angle that girls didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[52,54],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-humourous","tag-irony","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}