{"id":178950,"date":"2018-07-10T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/10\/oh-dear-lord-this-is-not-the-onion\/"},"modified":"2018-07-10T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T23:15:00","slug":"oh-dear-lord-this-is-not-the-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/10\/oh-dear-lord-this-is-not-the-onion\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Dear Lord, This Is Not The Onion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Washington Post<\/i> just published this OP\/Ed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/i-dont-know-kavanaugh-the-judge-but-kavanaugh-the-carpool-dad-is-one-great-guy\/2018\/07\/10\/a1866a2c-8446-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">I Don\u2019t Know Kavanaugh the Judge. But Kavanaugh the Carpool Dad Is One Great Guy.<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, let me say that the misuse of periods in the headline are from the original, though I corrected capitalization.<\/p>\n<p>Second, this is some random mom in the DC suburbs raving about the job that he does coaching a 6<sup>th<\/sup> grade girls&#8217; basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done a quick Google, and I haven&#8217;t found any Republican connections.<\/p>\n<p>She appears to be a designer (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/julie-o-brien-284a184a\/\">web and interior design<\/a>) and a neighbor of the nominee, and honestly, I don&#8217;t see anything wrong with her &#8220;article&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a completely run-of-the-mill letter to the editor by a friend.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the fact that the failed middle school science project that is Fred Hiatt&#8217;s editorial board published this as a full blown editorial is truly, and thoroughly, screwed up.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy \u2026\u2026\u2026 You really need to spend more time with your family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post just published this OP\/Ed: I Don\u2019t Know Kavanaugh the Judge. But Kavanaugh the Carpool Dad Is One Great Guy. First, let me say that the misuse of periods in the headline are from the original, though I corrected capitalization. Second, this is some random mom in the DC suburbs raving about the &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":[490,407,374,421],"class_list":["post-178950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hack-journalism","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178950"}],"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=178950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}