{"id":14926,"date":"2013-10-22T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14926"},"modified":"2013-10-22T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:52:09","slug":"burned-by-mcdonalds-coffee-then-the-news-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/22\/burned-by-mcdonalds-coffee-then-the-news-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Burned by McDonald&#8217;s Coffee, Then the News Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Upworthy<\/em> featured this video in its story <a title=\"Upworthy Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/ever-hear-about-the-lady-that-spilled-coffee-on-herself-at-mcdonalds-then-sued-for-millions\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ever Hear About The Lady Who Spilled Coffee On Herself At McDonald&#8217;s, Then Sued For Millions?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s really unbelievable what happened to Stella Liebeck. You just have to watch to see how the media turned on this little old lady who lived in Albuquerque. Obviously a villain, right? And at 5:00, prepare to see what the coffee actually did to her. It&#8217;s not pretty. Well &#8230; nothing in her situation was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCkL9UlmCOE?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I have known the truth about this story for many years.  I may have even blogged about it before.  This is the first time I saw some of the pictures of her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>What really burns me, is the talk of tort reform by people who base the idea on fictional beliefs about how our jury system works. (Yes, pun intended.)<\/p>\n<p>Now that I think about it, isn&#8217;t bullying the way that Republicans have gotten their way since the days of Ronald Reagan?  Maybe this is why I have stood up against Republicans since they started using these tactics.  My experience is that standing up to bullies is the only way to handle them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upworthy featured this video in its story Ever Hear About The Lady Who Spilled Coffee On Herself At McDonald&#8217;s, Then Sued For Millions? It&#8217;s really unbelievable what happened to Stella Liebeck. You just have to watch to see how the media turned on this little old lady who lived in Albuquerque. Obviously a villain, right? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14927,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions\/14927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}