{"id":8987,"date":"2020-07-07T01:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T01:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2020-07-07T01:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T01:21:26","slug":"do-not-participate-in-the-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/do-not-participate-in-the-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Do NOT participate in the lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>           Do <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">NOT<\/span><\/strong> participate in the lottery Shirley Jackson wrote about. Do <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>NOT<\/strong> <\/span>participate in the lottery Shirley Jackson wrote about because  it&#8217;s pretty brutal having kids throw stones at their mother or father and killing them with the stones as a sacrifice so they would have good farmland and not go back living in the caves again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>       <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">   <\/span>   Also, Nobody would want their own children throwing stones at them trying to kill them. It&#8217;s like torture. It may even be torture! What&#8217;s worse is that their children don&#8217;t know what their doing is wrong and are being brainwashed to think like<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> \ud83d\ude1c&#8221;YAY! Every year, were gonna kill someone by pelting stones at them. I am sooo happy to do this. YAAAAY!&#8221;\ud83d\ude1c<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>               <span style=\"color:#003ca3\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> Lastly, who would believe if we don&#8217;t kill someone by pelting them with stones, \ud83d\ude27&#8221;POOOOF!&#8221;\ud83d\ude27 We would all have bad farmland and suddenly appear and start living in caves. And even if we do appear in a cave, we can just walk out and start farming again.<\/span> These are some of the reasons why you should <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">NOT<\/span><\/strong> participate in the lottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do NOT participate in the lottery Shirley Jackson wrote about. Do NOT participate in the lottery Shirley Jackson wrote about because it&#8217;s pretty brutal having kids throw stones at their mother or father and killing them with the stones as a sacrifice so they would have good farmland and not go back living in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/do-not-participate-in-the-lottery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do NOT participate in the lottery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KIb4-2kX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}