{"id":57493,"date":"2011-08-19T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T00:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/57493\/seriousness-gang-ten\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T00:25:30","slug":"seriousness-gang-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/57493\/seriousness-gang-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seriousness of the Gang of Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to say that some of the bloggers and their friends here are so funny.  Even if you\u2019re not trying to be, you guys are hilarious.  You really take all this Gang of Ten business seriously?  Really?  Are you that paranoid in real life?<\/p>\n<p>I like how you compare the Gang of Ten to the Bloods\/Crips, the various Mafias, Old West outlaws, and my personal favorite the Japanese Yakuza.  I still can\u2019t stop laughing over that one.  Especially given the median age and health of the Gang of Ten members.  The pictures that your comparisons conjure up in my mind are hysterical.<\/p>\n<p>In all due respect to the Gang of Ten, I see them more like Our Gang from the Lil\u2019 Rascals, the Happy Days Gang, the T-Birds from Grease, or the gang referred to in the Rascal Flatts song \u201cMe and My Gang\u201d.  I think they\u2019re about as dangerous as Eric Von Zipper and The Rat Pack motorcycle gang of the Beach Party movies.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite movie lines from The Substitute fits here perfectly.  \u201cPower perceived is power achieved.\u201d  You speculate with each other that the Gang of Ten has all this power and so I guess for you they do.  You take them much too seriously and that power exists only in your own minds.  It really is a laugh riot when you take a step back and look at it.  If you just can\u2019t see it then by all means carry on with your paranoia.  It makes for some good reading entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t like them, and the rest of their God forsaken liberal friends, then block them.  If you don\u2019t like interacting with them then don\u2019t go on their blogs.  If they\u2019re commenting on someone else\u2019s blog then ignore them.  The only caveat to this advice is that you without them and them without you produce some pretty boring blogs.  Unless, of course, you like your blogs to be nothing but a back pattin\u2019, couldn\u2019t agree with you more, showin\u2019 the love, smiley fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is serious.  No really it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,2],"tags":[4072,4073,4074],"class_list":["post-57493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-games","category-other","tag-gang-of-ten","tag-seriousness","tag-world-is-coming-to-an-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}