{"id":176190,"date":"2020-08-12T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/12\/we-need-h-l-mencken-today\/"},"modified":"2020-08-12T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T23:21:00","slug":"we-need-h-l-mencken-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/12\/we-need-h-l-mencken-today\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need H.L. Mencken Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reading H.L. Mencken this morning, on Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s biography of George Washington:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This incredible work is an almost inexhaustible mine of bad writing&#8230; To find a match for it, one must try to imagine a biography of the Duke of Wellington by his barber.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1293167303740338176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know that H.L. Mencken was antisemitic and racist, particularly bu the standards of the day, but damn, that man could write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading H.L. Mencken this morning, on Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s biography of George Washington: &#8220;This incredible work is an almost inexhaustible mine of bad writing&#8230; To find a match for it, one must try to imagine a biography of the Duke of Wellington by his barber.&#8221; \u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) August 11, 2020 I know that H.L. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,389],"class_list":["post-176190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176190"}],"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=176190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}