{"id":1513,"date":"2009-02-05T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T08:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2022-01-12T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T03:19:10","slug":"flo-and-kay-a-fascinating-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/flo-and-kay-a-fascinating-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Flo and Kay: A Fascinating  Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/flo-and-kay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1514\" title=\"flo-and-kay\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/flo-and-kay.jpg?resize=200%2C133\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BgKcB1j4Rzs\"><strong>Flo and Kay<\/strong><\/a> are autistic twins who are also savants: They can calculate calendar dates and they remember everything. They enjoy music and they worship Dick Clark like a deity, literally. They are sometimes called &#8220;The Rainman Twins,&#8221; which is unfortunate, since they are not movie characters. Their lives have been fraught with tragedy, but they are unusually happy and resilient.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the documentary about Flo and Kay, I fell in love with them. I can&#8217;t even imagine anyone feeling differently.<\/p>\n<p>My response at the end of the documentary was, Why doesn&#8217;t Dick Clark hook them up with some money, so they can afford better care? He has met the twins, and knows that they consider him their personal Savior. What&#8217;s a million dollars to Dick Clark?!?<\/p>\n<p>What a fucking cunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flo and Kay are autistic twins who are also savants: They can calculate calendar dates and they remember everything. They enjoy music and they worship Dick Clark like a deity, literally. They are sometimes called &#8220;The Rainman Twins,&#8221; which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/flo-and-kay-a-fascinating-documentary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[465,494],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-op","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14979,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/14979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}