{"id":100,"date":"1981-05-25T19:49:52","date_gmt":"1981-05-25T23:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-10-19T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:56:00","slug":"weighted-down-by-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Weighted Down by the &#8217;80s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>These days, our gentle punditocracy would call the mom and dad shown below &#8220;values voters&#8221;,<\/strong> but back then we just called them &#8220;right-wing religious-freak nutjobs&#8221; &#8212; not quite as elegant, but more truthfully desciptive. Another better-known Yipster Times\/Overthrow piece, a back-cover subscription ad poster from the summer of &#8217;81 which asked its readers the question, &#8220;Weighted Down By The &#8217;80s?&#8221; That&#8217;s right, not a year into the new decade, and every aspect of life &#8212; workers&#8217; rights, reproductive rights, civil liberties, education, popular culture &#8212; was hammer-down on the highway to hell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101\" title=\"crossballandchain650w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/crossballandchain650w.jpg\" alt=\"crossballandchain650w\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/crossballandchain650w.jpg 650w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/crossballandchain650w-139x150.jpg 139w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/crossballandchain650w-400x430.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/crossballandchain650w-500x538.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You know when an outfit calls itself &#8220;Focus On The Family&#8221;, all of our families are in huge-ass trouble.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Weighted Down by the '80s?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gipperama\/crossballandchain.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>medium-res jpg image, <\/strong><\/a>194k; <a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"weighted down by the '80s?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gipperama\/crossballandchain.tif\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>high-res tiff image, <\/strong><\/a>645k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, our gentle punditocracy would call the mom and dad shown below &#8220;values voters&#8221;, but back then we just called them &#8220;right-wing religious-freak nutjobs&#8221; &#8212; not quite as elegant, but more truthfully desciptive. Another better-known Yipster Times\/Overthrow piece, a back-cover subscription ad poster from the summer of &#8217;81 which asked its readers the question, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,8],"tags":[1455,1451,1453],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-reagan-years","category-right-wingnuts","tag-media","tag-reagan-years","tag-right-wingnuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}