{"id":181659,"date":"2016-04-20T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/20\/useless-meatbag-of-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:49:00","slug":"useless-meatbag-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/20\/useless-meatbag-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Useless Meatbag of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Bump of the <i>Washington Post<\/i>, who wrote that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/04\/18\/bernie-sanders-keeps-saying-his-average-donation-is-27-but-it-really-isnt\/\">Bernie Sanders wasn&#8217;t telling the truth about his average donation being $27<\/a>, because the current average is actually $27.88, and some months, it has gone as high as $29.14.<\/p>\n<p>Much pearl clutching ensues.<\/p>\n<p>When most of the internet called him a \u2026\u2026\u2026 well \u2026\u2026\u2026 &#8220;Useless Meatbag&#8221;, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/04\/19\/the-day-i-inadvertantly-jammed-27-89-into-a-very-angry-hornets-nest\/\">whined about it the next day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>QED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Bump of the Washington Post, who wrote that Bernie Sanders wasn&#8217;t telling the truth about his average donation being $27, because the current average is actually $27.88, and some months, it has gone as high as $29.14. Much pearl clutching ensues. When most of the internet called him a \u2026\u2026\u2026 well \u2026\u2026\u2026 &#8220;Useless Meatbag&#8221;, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,1094,974,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-campaign-finance","category-hack-journalism","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181659"}],"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=181659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}