{"id":149,"date":"2007-09-01T02:13:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T06:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/09\/01\/moustachioed-men-downtrodden-minority-group\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:28:03","slug":"moustachioed-men-downtrodden-minority-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/09\/01\/moustachioed-men-downtrodden-minority-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustachioed Men &#8212; Downtrodden Minority Group? (Updated &#8212; Limerick Revised)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is\u00a0 the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/08\/26\/wtache126.xml\">American Mustache Institute (AMI)<\/a> for real? When I first read about it, I figured it must surely\u00a0be\u00a0fictitious.\u00a0 Either that\u00a0 &#8230; or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/JohnBolton_01.jpg\">John Bolton&#8217;s<\/a> new employer. But\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanmustacheinstitute.org\/\">the AMI, a sort of mustache anti-defamation league, apparently does exist<\/a>, with this as its stated goal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To battle negative stereotyping that has accompanied the mustache since those glory years of the 1970s &#8211; the peak of mustache acceptance &#8211; fighting to create a climate of acceptance, understanding, flavor saving, and upper lip warmth for all mustached Americans alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the American Mustache Institute deserves a limerick don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Ode to Mustached\u00a0Men, The Forgotten\u00a0Minority<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Ending prejudice\u2014that&#8217;s the group&#8217;s aim.<br \/>\n&#8220;Don&#8217;t be bigots!&#8221; its members exclaim.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the bias they face?<br \/>\nNot their age, faith or race\u2014<br \/>\nAnti-mustache behavior&#8217;s to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is\u00a0 the American Mustache Institute (AMI) for real? When I first read about it, I figured it must surely\u00a0be\u00a0fictitious.\u00a0 Either that\u00a0 &#8230; or John Bolton&#8217;s new employer. But\u00a0the AMI, a sort of mustache anti-defamation league, apparently does exist, with this as its stated goal: To battle negative stereotyping that has accompanied the mustache since those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,25,108,6,7,90,88],"tags":[1072,1071,1074,1070,1068,1073,1067,1066,1069,1075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}