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{"id":831,"date":"2013-03-20T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2013-03-20T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:49:13","slug":"mmem-vol-9-issue-35-gypsies-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"MMeM, Vol. 9  Issue 35 &#8211; Gypsies. Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #ff6600; float: right; font-size: 28px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 150px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: brown;\">Hey, if THEY <strong>can do modern <\/strong>stuff, so <span style=\"color: brown;\">can we! <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: khaki; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; float: left; font-family: times; font-size: 80px; line-height: 60px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 5px; padd$1 ing-right: 5px; padding-top: 2px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #bdb76b; border-style: solid;\">C<\/span>an we all agree that no one really knows what a &#8220;Gypsy&#8221; is? When you get right down to it, gypsies are really just unemployed people who like to travel and have no real home. It&#8217;s really just Chic Homelessness. That brings up another point, we had better not be including &#8220;Gypsies&#8221; in homeless counts!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/2998118\/posts\">reported<\/a> this week that a &#8220;Gypsy&#8221; family has been arrested for stealing better than $3M worth of electronics across the country. My problem with this is, don&#8217;t gypsies generally shun modern society and technology? No? I don&#8217;t know, sounds like these gypsies have been watching <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/tv-shows\/amish-mafia\">AmishMafia<\/a>\u00a0and decided, &#8220;Hey, if THEY can do modern stuff, so can we!&#8221; Apparently, 3-4 members of this family were based (using that word lightly) in Chicago. #StayClassyChicago<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, maybe the rest of us should band together and form an Amish Gypsy club and make the big time like these nose-to-the-grindstone workers!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/discovery-bringing-amish-mafia-to-tv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-589\" alt=\"discovery-bringing-amish-mafia-to-tv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/discovery-bringing-amish-mafia-to-tv-300x300.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/discovery-bringing-amish-mafia-to-tv-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/discovery-bringing-amish-mafia-to-tv-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/discovery-bringing-amish-mafia-to-tv-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/discovery-bringing-amish-mafia-to-tv-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/discovery-bringing-amish-mafia-to-tv.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/imagesCA3IXSE4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-832 alignleft\" alt=\"imagesCA3IXSE4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/imagesCA3IXSE4.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/American-Gypsies-billboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-834 alignleft\" alt=\"American Gypsies billboard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/American-Gypsies-billboard-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/American-Gypsies-billboard-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/American-Gypsies-billboard-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/American-Gypsies-billboard.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/imagesCAUPJ8QR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-833 alignnone\" alt=\"imagesCAUPJ8QR\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/imagesCAUPJ8QR.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, if THEY can do modern stuff, so can we! Can we all agree that no one really knows what a &#8220;Gypsy&#8221; is? When you get right down to it, gypsies are really just unemployed people who like to travel &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=831\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MMeM, Vol. 9  Issue 35 &#8211; Gypsies. 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