{"id":6161,"date":"2012-09-30T22:44:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T08:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2012-09-30T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T08:44:03","slug":"lost-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/30\/lost-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bet the irony of a catchphrase coined by white Australians to denigrate Australians of Middle-Eastern ancestry being used by a &#8220;local&#8221; against mainland visitors is totally lost on the owner of this sticker.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s amusing that although it pains him that mainlanders from the CONUS come to Hawai&#8217;i to &#8220;steal his surf&#8221;, his Nissan Pathfinder is nonetheless plastered with\u00c2\u00a0large stickers advertising for a mainland company from Hood River, Oregon with a pidgin English name, and a\u00c2\u00a0Costa Mesa, California company with a faceted jewel-like logo.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0If he really\u00c2\u00a0hates everything post-Cook so much, he better ditch his Japanese car and Chinese surf trunks and get himself a homegrown Koa surfboard&#8230; and learn <em>&#8216;olelo Hawai&#8217;i<\/em> while he&#8217;s at it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cronulla_wannabe.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"6162\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/30\/lost-irony\/cronulla_wannabe\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cronulla_wannabe.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1346952692&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cronulla_wannabe\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cronulla_wannabe-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cronulla_wannabe.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6162\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"cronulla_wannabe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cronulla_wannabe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cronulla_wannabe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cronulla_wannabe.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet the irony of a catchphrase coined by white Australians to denigrate Australians of Middle-Eastern ancestry being used by a &#8220;local&#8221; 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