{"id":175660,"date":"2020-12-31T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/31\/dumb-ass\/"},"modified":"2020-12-31T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T05:15:00","slug":"dumb-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/31\/dumb-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jryDFka.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/jryDFka.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Luke Letlow, a Republican congressman-elect, after consistently campaigning without a mask, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2020\/12\/29\/luke-letlow-covid-louisiana-congress\/\">has died of Covid-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts and prayers, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>As the saying goes, &#8220;\u30d0\u30ab\u306b\u3064\u3051\u308b\u85ac\u306f\u306a\u3044&#8221;.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Pronounced in Japanese,    &#8220;baka ni tsukeru kusuri wanai&#8221;, which means, &#8220;There is no medicine for    stupidity.&#8221;   Apologies for any inaccuracies in the text, I do not  know   Japanese.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Letlow, a Republican congressman-elect, after consistently campaigning without a mask, has died of Covid-19. Thoughts and prayers, I guess. As the saying goes, &#8220;\u30d0\u30ab\u306b\u3064\u3051\u308b\u85ac\u306f\u306a\u3044&#8221;.* *Pronounced in Japanese, &#8220;baka ni tsukeru kusuri wanai&#8221;, which means, &#8220;There is no medicine for stupidity.&#8221; Apologies for any inaccuracies in the text, I do not know Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,507,572,406,403],"class_list":["post-175660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-obituaries","tag-pandemic","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}