{"id":178896,"date":"2018-07-24T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/24\/hunter-s-thompson-is-smiling-somewhere\/"},"modified":"2018-07-24T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T23:12:00","slug":"hunter-s-thompson-is-smiling-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/24\/hunter-s-thompson-is-smiling-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter S. Thompson is Smiling Somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/a-neoliberal-nightmare-at-ozy-fest-2018-702600\/\">review of OZY Fest 2018<\/a> from <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> magazine by&nbsp; Matt Christman and Will Menaker of very left Chapo Trap House podcast, who referred to it as a, &#8220;Neoliberal Nightmare.&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p>It is a thing of beauty, and my favorite bit was reading about Rose McGowan throwing serious shade at guest of honor Hillary Clinton:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">After taking a time out in the advertorial screening room\/safe space presented by Volvo, I caught some of Rose McGowan\u2019s talk on #MeToo. What her analysis of sexual harassment and assault was lacking in materialism, she more than made up for in purity of hate. I like to think she was throwing some subtle shade on the queen when she referred to the Weinsteins of the world as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2016\/aug\/28\/reince-priebus\/did-hillary-clinton-call-african-american-youth-su\/\">superpredators<\/a>.\u201d Maybe it\u2019s just my love of Jawbreaker talking, but Comrade McGowan might join the revolution yet.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It <b>WAS<\/b> shade, and it <b>WASN&#8217;T<\/b> subtle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a review of OZY Fest 2018 from Rolling Stone magazine by&nbsp; Matt Christman and Will Menaker of very left Chapo Trap House podcast, who referred to it as a, &#8220;Neoliberal Nightmare.&#8221;. It is a thing of beauty, and my favorite bit was reading about Rose McGowan throwing serious shade at guest of honor Hillary &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":[464,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-178896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178896"}],"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=178896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}