On Groundhog\u2019s Day, the US \u2014especially the East Coast \u2014 was disappointed to learn, according to a little groundhog, that we would be having six more weeks of winter instead of an early spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, it turns out that the groundhog is actually a conniving liar and a sneaky snake. The past two days in our<\/em> area (the only relevant part of the US) have been in the sixties and the sun has shone through all the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What do we do about this public display of untrustworthiness? Can we not trust anything American anymore? Next you\u2019re going to tell me that Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, and justice and liberty for all is a lie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI made a mistake,\u201d said the groundhog in an interview with The Rutabaga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The groundhog is a public figure. So he\u2019s going through what he calls, \u201cgetting sucked in to the toxic circle of cancel culture\u201d on social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s important to hold public figures accountable because they influence us on our moral standards. For example, because of him someone really important, like a member of the government, could lie. Because of a groundhog<\/em>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyways, I don\u2019t really care about this whole spring and winter thing. I believe seasons were made up to remind us to take our allergy medicine. (You\u2019re telling me that since all of a sudden the calendar marks it as \u201cspring,\u201d that\u2019s when I\u2019m supposed to take it? How do they know that\u2019s when my allergies start<\/em>?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Rutabaga condemns the lying acts of Phil the groundhog and hopes people keep him accountable for such actions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Groundhog\u2019s Day, the US \u2014especially the East Coast \u2014 was disappointed to learn, according to a little groundhog, that we would be having six more weeks of winter instead of an early spring. Well, it turns out that the groundhog is actually a conniving liar and a sneaky snake. The past two days in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}