{"id":75639,"date":"2016-06-27T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=75639"},"modified":"2016-06-25T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T15:26:59","slug":"british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/06\/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber\/","title":{"rendered":"British Lose Right to Claim That Americans Are Dumber"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"andy<\/a>24 Jun 2016 – <\/em>Across the United Kingdom on Friday, Britons mourned their long-cherished right to claim that Americans were significantly dumber than they are.<\/p>\n

Luxuriating in the superiority of their intellect over Americans\u2019 has long been a favorite pastime in Britain, surpassing in popularity such games as cricket, darts, and snooker.<\/p>\n

But, according to Alistair Dorrinson, a pub owner in North London, British voters have done irreparable damage to the \u201cmost enjoyable sport this nation has ever known: namely, treating Americans like idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen our countrymen cast their votes yesterday, they didn\u2019t realize they were destroying the most precious leisure activity this nation has ever known,\u201d he said. \u201cWankers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"brexit<\/a><\/p>\n

In the face of this startling display of national idiocy, Dorrinson still mustered some of the resilience for which the British people are known. \u201cThis is a dark day,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I hold out hope that, come November, Americans could become dumber than us once more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Andy Borowitz is a <\/em>New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for <\/em>The New Yorker since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever <\/em>National Press Club award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by <\/em>The New Yorker in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luxuriating in the superiority of their intellect over Americans\u2019 has long been a favorite pastime in Britain, surpassing in popularity such games as cricket, darts, and snooker. But, according to a pub owner in North London, British voters have done irreparable damage to the \u201cmost enjoyable sport this nation has ever known: namely, treating Americans like idiots. But I hold out hope that, come November, Americans could become dumber than us once more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}