{"id":215,"date":"2026-08-27T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/?p=215"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:05:22","slug":"opinion-the-sad-spread-of-intolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/opinion-the-sad-spread-of-intolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: the Sad Spread of Intolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I am currently vacationing in Cape Cod, formerly a bastion of tolerance towards Simians. Its broad beaches, picturesque villages and numerous well-stocked bars drew in monkeys from all over the country, and the proximity to Boston meant that monkeys sleeping off the one-day flu in public places did not seem out of place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly the type of anti-monkey hysteria that has taken hold on parts of New Jersey now has spoiled the ambiance of this former vacation hotspot. As an example, this poster was prominently displayed at multiple bars in the Mashpee area today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4CA95639-AA17-4793-8EE6-DF945B006882-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4CA95639-AA17-4793-8EE6-DF945B006882-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4CA95639-AA17-4793-8EE6-DF945B006882-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4CA95639-AA17-4793-8EE6-DF945B006882-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4CA95639-AA17-4793-8EE6-DF945B006882.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only a united response from humans, Simians and other drinkers in boycotting these establishments will bring them to their senses.<\/p>\n<p>A. Non Simian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently vacationing in Cape Cod, formerly a bastion of tolerance towards Simians. Its broad beaches, picturesque villages and numerous well-stocked bars drew in monkeys from all over the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mischief-monkey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}