{"id":1223,"date":"2015-02-27T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2015-02-27T19:32:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:32:22","slug":"gov-haslam-declares-state-of-emergency-over-divisive-white-or-blue-dress-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2015\/02\/27\/gov-haslam-declares-state-of-emergency-over-divisive-white-or-blue-dress-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Haslam declares State of Emergency over divisive white or blue dress controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1222\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dress-300x214.png\" alt=\"The Dress\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dress-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dress-67x48.png 67w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dress-87x63.png 87w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dress.png 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dress<\/figcaption><\/figure>Gov. Bill Haslam declared Tennessee to be in a State of Emergency earlier today, as a result of the mass chaos that has erupted over the question of whether a dress in a photo being shared on social media is colored white and gold or blue and black.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I urge the public to remain calm in this severe crisis,&#8221; said Haslam. &#8220;Stay inside, lock your doors, and don&#8217;t get on Facebook, Tumblr or Reddit for at least the next 48 hours, I implore you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The divisive issue has caused friends and family members to turn on each other with violent disagreement, over a simple matter of color perception with regards to a particular snapshot of a dress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Team White and Gold has occupied the Southside, while Team Blue and Black has taken over the North Shore,&#8221; said Police Chief Fred Fletcher. &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard murmurs of martial law, but let&#8217;s hope it doesn&#8217;t come to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are riots, looting, naked napalm-scalded children running through the streets, screaming,&#8221; said resident Katharin Pourlay. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen so many people so angry about an issue since Coke changed its formula in 1985.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Haslam declared Tennessee to be in a State of Emergency earlier today, as a result of the mass chaos that has erupted over the question of whether a dress in a photo being shared on social media is colored white and gold or blue and black. &#8220;I urge the public to remain calm in this severe crisis,&#8221; said Haslam. &#8220;Stay inside, lock your doors, and don&#8217;t get on Facebook, Tumblr or Reddit for at least the next 48 hours, I implore you.&#8221; The divisive issue has caused friends and family members to turn on each other with violent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}