{"id":37108,"date":"2024-07-05T16:50:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37108"},"modified":"2024-07-05T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:50:24","slug":"oh-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/07\/oh-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending far too much time seeing countless online displays of American hubris and mindless patriotism for the holiday yesterday, I ran across this little gem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/landofthefree-nagon.jpg\" alt=\"frame grabs of Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk, dumping on the US&#039; long history of slavery\" width=\"568\" height=\"639\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37109\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>While I&#8217;m not familiar with the specific episode, I feel obligated to say that this is Diane Morgan as her character Philomena Cunk, the host of a few shows that interview various historical experts while being even more ill-informed than the majority of Americans (yes, I live in North Carolina, and yes, I&#8217;ve been an <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/01\/i-am-not-an-american\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American<\/a> all my life, so I&#8217;m well qualified to make this statement.) If you have not seen <em>Cunk on Earth<\/em>, it&#8217;s worth seeking out, because it&#8217;s quite entertaining and Morgan is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>On a serious note for a moment, I think it says a hell of a lot more when we recognize the shitty behavior we used to have and accept it as our history &#8211; it&#8217;s not going to change, after all &#8211; to reflect on how much we&#8217;ve changed for the better and can <em>continue<\/em> to do so, rather than attempting to whitewash it or pretend that it doesn&#8217;t exist to escape any culpability. One is growth<strong>;<\/strong> the other denial. Perhaps we&#8217;re big enough to recognize that? And then we can tackle, oh, the shit that we <em>still<\/em> do and really shouldn&#8217;t be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending far too much time seeing countless online displays of American hubris and mindless patriotism for the holiday yesterday, I ran across this little gem. While I&#8217;m not familiar with the specific episode, I feel obligated to say that this is Diane Morgan as her character Philomena Cunk, the host of a few shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[7731,7733,7734,7732],"class_list":["post-37108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-random","tag-diane-morgan","tag-free-eh","tag-keep-growing","tag-philomena-cunk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}