{"id":6625,"date":"2015-10-13T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2015-10-13T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T05:02:29","slug":"should-we-really-be-encouraging-this-sort-of-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/should-we-really-be-encouraging-this-sort-of-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we really be encouraging this sort of thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2015 Burlington tourism guide features a smiling family on the cover. There’s nothing unusual about that. They’re all wearing flip-flops except the youngest, who’s wearing Crocs. That’s a warning sign, but they are at a pool with water slides, so there’s at least a reason for them all to be wearing flip-flops.<\/p>\n

The last part, though, is unforgivable. The mother is taking a family selfie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ewwwwww.<\/em><\/p>\n

(The word “selfie” and variants were inescapable this year at the Iowa State Fair and at ISU football. I suppose the real question is how it took that long to happen. A selfie with the butter cow is just sacrilegious.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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