{"id":614,"date":"2011-08-31T21:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T07:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=614"},"modified":"2011-08-31T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T07:22:45","slug":"just-when-you-thought-satire-couldnt-get-any-more-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2011\/08\/31\/just-when-you-thought-satire-couldnt-get-any-more-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When You Thought Satire Couldn&#8217;t Get Any More Dead&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We Shall Never Forget 9\/11: The Kids&#8217; Book of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/aug\/31\/9-11-children-colouring-book-muslims\">Freedom<\/a> has just been released by the Missouri-based publisher Really Big Coloring Books, which says it is &#8220;designed to be a tool that parents can use to help teach children about the facts surrounding 9\/11&#8221;. Showing scenes from 9\/11 for children to colour in and telling the story of the attacks and the subsequent hunt for Osama bin Laden, &#8220;the book was created with honesty, integrity, reverence, respect and does not shy away from the truth&#8221;, according to its publisher, which says that it has sold out of its first print run of 10,000 copies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One page of the $6.99 book, which has been given a PG rating, shows Bin Laden hiding behind a hijab-wearing woman as he is shot by a Navy SEAL. &#8220;Being the elusive character that he was, and after hiding out with his terrorist buddies in Pakistan and Afghanistan, American soldiers finally locate the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden,&#8221; runs the text accompanying the picture. &#8220;Children, the truth is, these terrorist acts were done by freedom-hating radical Islamic Muslim extremists. These crazy people hate the American way of life because we are FREE and our society is FREE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Or maybe this is some kind of hoax? Pretty damned awesome one if it is. By the way, if you order between 48 and 288 copies (??), they&#8217;re only $2.80 per each. Am tempted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Shall Never Forget 9\/11: The Kids&#8217; Book of Freedom has just been released by the Missouri-based publisher Really Big Coloring Books, which says it is &#8220;designed to be a tool that parents can use to help teach children about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2011\/08\/31\/just-when-you-thought-satire-couldnt-get-any-more-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}