{"id":176749,"date":"2020-03-30T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/30\/is-this-sarcasm\/"},"modified":"2020-03-30T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:54:00","slug":"is-this-sarcasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/30\/is-this-sarcasm\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Sarcasm?*"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I mean, if we hand out too many ventilators, people might prefer it to breathing on their own.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prchovanec\/status\/1243359511743574022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <i>Washington Post<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2020\/03\/27\/coronavirus-trump-fox-ventilator\/\">observes that Patrick Chovanec noted this, &#8220;Sarcastically,<\/a>&#8221; but given that he, &#8220;Previously worked for GOP leaders on Capitol Hill,&#8221; I&#8217;m not completely sure.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Of course it&#8217;s sarcasm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, if we hand out too many ventilators, people might prefer it to breathing on their own. \u2014 Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) March 27, 2020 The Washington Post observes that Patrick Chovanec noted this, &#8220;Sarcastically,&#8221; but given that he, &#8220;Previously worked for GOP leaders on Capitol Hill,&#8221; I&#8217;m not completely sure. *Of course it&#8217;s sarcasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,588,464,460,390],"class_list":["post-176749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-fail","tag-good-writing","tag-public-health","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176749"}],"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=176749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}