{"id":1190,"date":"2008-08-21T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2008-08-21T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T14:23:19","slug":"douchebaggery-is-the-word-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/21\/douchebaggery-is-the-word-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"“Douchebaggery” is the word of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no better word at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Douchebaggery it is, and douchebaggery is afoot.\u00c2\u00a0 It feels good to say it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s enough syllables to be complicated and hard to say after two or three times, but simple enough that everybody understands it.<\/p>\n

The Urban Dictionary provideth: douchebaggery<\/a><\/p>\n

1)The philosophy held by douchebag<\/a>s, holding that no one other than themselves (or perhaps their close associates) matters in the least bit, and thus that other human beings can and should be treated like complete excrement for little or no reason (and often for selfish reasons). Closely related to fascism<\/a>, which has been practiced by control freak<\/a>s such as Adolf Hitler.
\n2)The act of putting this philosophy into practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other definitions there are similarly beautiful and true, I suggest you go and read them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no better word at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Douchebaggery it is, and douchebaggery is afoot.\u00c2\u00a0 It feels good to say it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s enough syllables to be complicated and hard to say after two or three times, but simple enough that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-of-the-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-jc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}