{"id":182152,"date":"2015-12-06T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/06\/why-is-this-news-isnt-there-one-in-every-walmart\/"},"modified":"2015-12-06T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T01:14:00","slug":"why-is-this-news-isnt-there-one-in-every-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/06\/why-is-this-news-isnt-there-one-in-every-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is This News? Isn&#8217;t There One in Every Walmart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ZHnMK2f.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ZHnMK2f.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>It isn&#8217;t often that you read a story about a, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/now8news.com\/homeless-couple-found-living-in-walmart-attic\/\">homeless couple found living in Walmart attic with hot plate, meth lab, and 42&#8243; LED TV<\/a>,&#8221; but when you think about it, it is a juxtaposition that seems to fit that retail establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the link is a parody site, Now8News, but it is the sort of story that should be true.<\/p>\n<p>In a word this story is dripping with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Truthiness\">truthiness<\/a>, even if it isn&#8217;t true:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Being  homeless has to be very difficult, especially in the colder times of  the year. But not for this Tennessee couple who had been <i>\u201cliving in the lap of luxury\u201d<\/i>  above a Tennessee Walmart store. The \u2018homeless\u2019 man, 48-year-old  Wilbert Thomas, admitted to police that he and his girlfriend  54-year-old Ingrid Malone, had been living above the store for over two  years. What they did to the attic, baffled police and store employees.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a brilliant bit of parody, because it sounds so true. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t often that you read a story about a, &#8220;homeless couple found living in Walmart attic with hot plate, meth lab, and 42&#8243; LED TV,&#8221; but when you think about it, it is a juxtaposition that seems to fit that retail establishment. Of course, the link is a parody site, Now8News, but it is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1070],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182152"}],"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=182152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}