{"id":3420,"date":"2018-10-22T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2018-10-22T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:22:46","slug":"the-list-american-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3420","title":{"rendered":"The List &#8211; American Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/wp\/the-list\/#more-9291\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/aaabthelist.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe List\u201d is a means of male-control through negative feedback. Positive male actions towards a woman are expected, perhaps noted at the time, perhaps not, \u2014 but always in pencil. A brief pat and nod of encouragement and then the woman goes back into the default mode of \u201cwhat have you done for me lately?\u201d \u201cLately\u201d is, as all men know, but a small subset of a single day.<\/p>\n<p>Failings of the male \u2014 such as lapses in mental telepathy \u2014 are kept on \u201cThe List\u201d in indelible ink, preferably blood-red. \u201cThe List\u201d also includes transgressions, large and small, against the woman from previous relationships with previous males. The ownership of all these transgressions is automatically transferred to the male of the current relationship at the moment of inception or conception, whichever comes first. This is the reason men sometimes feel they are expected to pay an overdue bill for a meal they did not eat in a restaurant that no longer exists. Plus a 20% tip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t just me thinking I was being blamed for stuff her ex did. Good to know.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/wp\/the-list\/\">The List &#8211; American Digest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe List\u201d is a means of male-control through negative feedback. Positive male actions towards a woman are expected, perhaps noted at the time, perhaps not, \u2014 but always in pencil. A brief pat and nod of encouragement and then the woman goes back into the default mode of \u201cwhat have you done for me lately?\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The List &#8211; American Digest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}