{"id":7,"date":"2005-04-12T18:41:47","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T22:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/12\/cookie-monster\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T15:24:15","slug":"cookie-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/12\/cookie-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookie Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the fuzzy &#8216;Lil&#8217; Cookie-Monster that we all know and love is going to get a makeover  <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.excite.com\/article\/20050407\/D89AOL900.html\" target=_blank>Click Here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess they feel in our new and politically correct world, The cute little Cookie-Monster needs to serve as a better role model for our children and not eat so many cookies.  They feel he needs to just eat &#8220;a few&#8221; cookies mixed with a healthy diet.<\/p>\n<p>If we are going to focus on &#8220;Role Models&#8221; in this country&#8230; <!--more-->why don&#8217;t we start in places like Baseball?  For the past decade, our &#8220;Role Models&#8221; have been pumping obscene amounts of steroids into their bodies while everyone looked the other way.<\/p>\n<p>Or how about we take a look at the music industry, where our rapper &#8220;Role Models&#8221; are promoting a criminal way of life?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we can examine our religious &#8220;Role Models&#8221; a bit and ascertain why so many preists are molesting little boys? <\/p>\n<p>I could go on and on about this, but don&#8217;t ya think there are some bigger &#8220;Role Model&#8221; fish to fry?  Let&#8217;s leave the damn Cookie-Monster alone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the fuzzy &#8216;Lil&#8217; Cookie-Monster that we all know and love is going to get a makeover Click Here. I guess they feel in our new and politically correct world, The cute little Cookie-Monster needs to serve as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/12\/cookie-monster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}