{"id":181511,"date":"2016-06-04T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/04\/today-in-idiocy\/"},"modified":"2016-06-04T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T01:15:00","slug":"today-in-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/04\/today-in-idiocy\/","title":{"rendered":"Today In Idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ekx6rRi.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ekx6rRi.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>1,014 Miles Distance Might Explain the Coverage<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Over at <i>Tablet Magazine<\/i>,Yair Rosenberg wonders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/scroll\/203984\/does-the-new-york-times-think-there-should-be-different-rules-for-jews-and-muslims-at-public-pools\">what sort of liberal antisemitism makes <i>The New York Times<\/i> condemn single sex hours at a Brooklyn swimming pool for Orthodox Jews, but say nothing at all about a similar program for Muslims in Minneapolis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ummmm&#8230;.Here is a clue: One happened in Minneapolis, the other in Brooklyn. Why would the <u><i><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\"><b>New York<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/u><i> Times<\/i> would take more interest in one than the other?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because one is happening in New York, the <i>Times<\/i> home town and the other is happening a about 1,014 miles away as the crow flies?<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rosenberg, were you dropped on your head as a youth?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,014 Miles Distance Might Explain the Coverage Over at Tablet Magazine,Yair Rosenberg wonders what sort of liberal antisemitism makes The New York Times condemn single sex hours at a Brooklyn swimming pool for Orthodox Jews, but say nothing at all about a similar program for Muslims in Minneapolis. Ummmm&#8230;.Here is a clue: One happened in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1064,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181511"}],"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=181511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}