{"id":54,"date":"2004-07-03T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T14:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=54"},"modified":"2004-07-03T10:48:05","modified_gmt":"2004-07-03T14:48:05","slug":"if-life-gives-you-lemons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"If life gives you lemons&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boy Scouts are raising money for their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?p=47\">$14 Million forest fire bill<\/a>, by having a lemonade sale&#8230; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/West\/07\/03\/pricey.lemonade.ap\/index.html\">$250 a glass<\/a>.  They couldn&#8217;t even sell one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After two hours, they had netted only $66.43.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just the beginning,&#8221; Fisher said, calculating that with 210,000 similarly lucrative lemonade sales, the $14 million would be raised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, Boy Scouts.  Ever the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa-discrimination.org\/\">homophobic, discriminatory<\/a> optimists.   If I were a religious man, I&#8217;d say God&#8217;s trying to tell them something.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they would be better off selling cookies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy scouts owe the government $14million.  So, they have a lemonade sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}