{"id":8919,"date":"2015-08-16T17:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/08\/rest-easy-slate-twitter-has-your-inoffensive-newredskinsnickname\/"},"modified":"2015-08-16T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T17:46:20","slug":"rest-easy-slate-twitter-has-your-newredskinsnickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/8919","title":{"rendered":"Rest easy, Slate: Twitter has your #NewRedskinsNickname"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/iowahawkblog\/status\/365600346338365441\n<p>Now that Slate has drawn a line in the sand and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/08\/self-congratulatory-sanctimony-slate-draws-mockery-for-calling-the-redskins-the-washington-redacted\/\">forbidden itself from referring to the Washington Redskins<\/a> by that “extremely tacky and dated”&nbsp;name, what’s the site to do if the team merits coverage in the future? In its headline announcing the decision, Slate simply referred to the Washington _____ and made a case for renaming the team the Redtails in a nod to the city’s African-American heritage.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn’t really capture the essence of today’s Washington, though, does it? There are so many other suggestions for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23NewRedskinsNickname&amp;mode=realtime\">#NewRedskinsNickname<\/a>&nbsp;that really capture the essence of D.C.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SJohnsonPDX\/status\/365600862678155264\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sschubart\/status\/365600940046286848\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/cj_larry\/status\/365601458504216579\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SJohnsonPDX\/status\/365601706962190337\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gamurgis\/status\/365602139701129218\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/dcseth\/status\/365602882453639169\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SteveKlein62\/status\/365602975932100613\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/davidserratoni\/status\/365603108472107009\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DoreenHDickson\/status\/365604529170939904\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MichaelP_Evans\/status\/365604583009030144\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Bing7557\/status\/365605327720292353\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Oenonewept\/status\/365606153050271744\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/iowahawkblog\/status\/365608048527540224\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/yesnicksearcy\/status\/365618794883858432\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ram_fan93059\/status\/365621064346255360\n<p>We can’t decide. Who wants to break the tie?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/djwolf76\/status\/365621059862540289<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/08\/rest-easy-slate-twitter-has-your-inoffensive-newredskinsnickname\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/08\/rest-easy-slate-twitter-has-your-inoffensive-newredskinsnickname\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/iowahawkblog\/status\/365600346338365441 Now that Slate has drawn a line in the sand and forbidden itself from referring to the Washington Redskins by that “extremely tacky and dated”&nbsp;name, what’s the site to do if the team merits coverage in the future? In its headline announcing the decision, Slate simply referred to the Washington _____ and made a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/8919\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rest easy, Slate: Twitter has your #NewRedskinsNickname<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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-8919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/14396967861071-washington-lame-ducks.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}