{"id":16,"date":"2004-01-23T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=16"},"modified":"2004-01-23T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T16:35:59","slug":"nited-sttes-toughens-image-with-umlauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/01\/23\/nited-sttes-toughens-image-with-umlauts\/","title":{"rendered":"?nited St?tes Toughens Image With Umlauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b><\/b> WASHINGTON, DC-<br \/><i>In a move designed to make the United States seem more &#8220;bad-assed and scary in a quasi-heavy-metal manner,&#8221; Congress passed a bill Monday changing the nation&#8217;s name to the ?nited St?tes of ?merica. &#8220;Much like M?tley Cr?e and Mot?rhead, the ?nited St?tes is not to be messed with,&#8221; said Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK). An upcoming redesign of the ?merican flag will feature the new name in burnished silver wrought in a jagged, gothic font and bolted to a black background. A new national anthem is also in the works, to be written by composer Glenn Danzig and tentatively titled &#8220;Howl Of The She-Demon.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A friend sent me this, which rocked. It sounds like it is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\" title=\"Which rules the world\">The Onion<\/a> but at the time of writing the site was down so i couldn&#8217;t check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC-In a move designed to make the United States seem more &#8220;bad-assed and scary in a quasi-heavy-metal manner,&#8221; Congress passed a bill Monday changing the nation&#8217;s name to the ?nited St?tes of ?merica. &#8220;Much like M?tley Cr?e and Mot?rhead, the ?nited St?tes is not to be messed with,&#8221; said Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK). An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}