{"id":179441,"date":"2018-02-08T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/08\/americas-finest-news-source-11\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:51:00","slug":"americas-finest-news-source-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/08\/americas-finest-news-source-11\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Finest News Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am, of course, Referring to <i>The Onion<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/fbi-warns-of-american-dream-scam-1822834360\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 130%; font-variant: small-caps;\">FBI Warns Of \u2018American Dream\u2019 Scam<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Noting that millions have already fallen victim to the long-running grift, the FBI warned Monday of the \u2018American Dream\u2019 scam. \u201cReports are coming in all across the country of Americans who were promised great prosperity and success in exchange for a lifetime of hard work, only to find themselves swindled and left with virtually nothing,\u201d said agent Dean Winthrop, who explained that susceptible parties are made to believe that class mobility is possible simply through ability or achievement, despite the fact that innumerable social, economic, and racial barriers prevent the vast majority of U.S. citizens from attaining even marginal amounts of upward movement. \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, of course, Referring to The Onion: FBI Warns Of \u2018American Dream\u2019 ScamNoting that millions have already fallen victim to the long-running grift, the FBI warned Monday of the \u2018American Dream\u2019 scam. \u201cReports are coming in all across the country of Americans who were promised great prosperity and success in exchange for a lifetime &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":[464,386,390],"class_list":["post-179441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-humor","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179441"}],"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=179441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}