{"id":912,"date":"2020-07-10T21:07:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T21:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/?p=912"},"modified":"2020-07-11T21:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T21:07:59","slug":"are-we-going-to-go-back-to-separate-drinking-fountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/are-we-going-to-go-back-to-separate-drinking-fountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Separate Drinking Fountains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South used to famously have separate drinking fountains for blacks and whites. I was wondering whether liberals might take us back to something like that. In my town, Bloomington,  university people tend to fear and despise \u201ccounty people\u201d (\u201cTrump voters\u201d, \u201cWal-Mart shoppers\u201d) . With covid-19, their fear includes fear of infection from  diseased, maskless, vermin. Will we see separate drinking fountains for  those with BA degrees and without?<\/p>\n<p>That hasn&#8217;t happened, to be sure. But in Wal-Mart today I was thirsty and I realized the liberals have made it superfluous. They simply have banned public drinking fountains altogether. Wal-Mart had taped up its drinking fountains. Ritual uncleanness is rendered impossible; the children of the rich will not face temptation, even  if they are so reckless as to enter a Wal-Mart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South used to famously have separate drinking fountains for blacks and whites. I was wondering whether liberals might take us back to something like that. In my town, Bloomington, university people tend to fear and despise \u201ccounty people\u201d (\u201cTrump voters\u201d, \u201cWal-Mart shoppers\u201d) . With covid-19, their fear includes fear of infection from diseased, maskless, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}