{"id":351,"date":"2005-12-06T21:23:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T01:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2005-12-06T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T01:23:57","slug":"supervillian-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Supervillian Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering about this for a while now. Do supervillians have rights? I mean, if they get paid by their supervillian bosses, does minimum wage apply to them? Or do they just get a cut of what they steal? Do they get health insurance? Why don&#8217;t they get a trial by jury? I mean, why was it OK for Batman to just throw Joker into that vat of acid or whatever? Why isn&#8217;t Batman arrested and charged with manslaughter? Or is murder in self-defense now OK?<\/p>\n<p>What about car insurance? Are supervillians allowed to buy insurance on their evilMobiles? Take a look at one of them some time, they must cost a fortune. Then Superman goes and throws it off a bridge. No wonder their goal in life is to get their hands on Krytonite, I&#8217;d be mad too if some guy in spandex came and chucked my million dollar car off a bridge!<\/p>\n<p>And taxes&#8230;Do they have to pay income tax on the stuff they steal? Considering the fact that most supervillians are mil\/billionaires, do they get tax cuts? Speaking of which, what about supervillian suffrage? Are they allowed to vote? Or serve in the military?<\/p>\n<p>My brain hurts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering about this for a while now. Do supervillians have rights? I mean, if they get paid by their supervillian bosses, does minimum wage apply to them? Or do they just get a cut of what they steal? Do they get health insurance? Why don&#8217;t they get a trial by jury? I mean, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-life-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}