{"id":1054,"date":"2011-04-11T13:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/blog\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2011-04-11T13:57:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:57:54","slug":"coexist-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"COEXIST — Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like funny bumper stickers as much as the next guy. Which is to say, I enjoy the joke the first time I see a new one. And after that, not so much. But one bumper sticker I’ve been seeing lately continues to be funny no matter how many times I see it. It’s popular, apparently, among people who have never studied religion:<\/p>\n

\"COEXIST\"<\/a>

Wishful Thinking<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s right, the COEXIST sticker. Here, posted without permission, is one of many nearly-identical-yet-copyrighted variations.<\/p>\n

What’s wrong with this picture? For a start, you have a bisexual “e”, a letter I always thought was about as straight as they come, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. You can’t trust the alphabet, as I always say. “OEXIS” is mostly composed of religions that have a record of tolerating other religions.<\/p>\n

But of course the beginning and end are two ancient enemies, the crescent and the cross. Only distance is preventing a harsh confrontation there. And their animosity doesn’t stop with their rivalry. Hippies (O) and bisexuals (E) are all that prevent the C from murdering the X and taking its land, and you just know T is horrified at the presence of the “satanic” dot on I. S practices ungodly meditation that can pull you from your faith, and both C and T would gladly gang up on E and stone it to death for its perversion.<\/p>\n

I’m surprised these bumper stickers don’t spontaneously combust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like funny bumper stickers as much as the next guy. Which is to say, I enjoy the joke the first time I see a new one. And after that, not so much. But one bumper sticker I’ve been seeing lately continues to be funny no matter how many times I see it. It’s popular, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}