{"id":182819,"date":"2015-06-01T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/01\/this-is-not-the-ok-it-is-kind-of-the-onion\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T22:32:00","slug":"this-is-not-the-ok-it-is-kind-of-the-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/01\/this-is-not-the-ok-it-is-kind-of-the-onion\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not The \u2026\u2026\u2026 OK \u2026\u2026\u2026 It IS Kind of The Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 305px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1rhLFDF516Q?rel=0\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i><\/i><\/div>\n<p>Just when you thought that the FIFA scandal could get any more surreal, or more pathetic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/06\/01\/fifa_bigwig_cites_the_onion_in_his_defense_against_corruption_charges\/\">one of the FIFI officials accused of bribery and money laundering has cited an article from <i>The Onion<\/i> to defend himself from the charges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Jack Warner, a former vice president of FIFA, was arrested last week in connection with a sweeping United States Justice Department investigation that slapped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/fifa-scandal-explained\/\">14 bigwigs<\/a> with charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>Warner, apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/05\/18\/anderson_cooper_explains_the_point_of_clickhole_by_totally_missing_the_point_of_clickhole\/\">unfamiliar with The Onion<\/a>, defended himself against these charges Sunday by holding up an article from the news satire website \u2014 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/fifa-frantically-announces-2015-summer-world-cup-u-50525\">FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup in the United States<\/a>\u201d \u2014 stating that \u201call this has stemmed from the failed U.S. bid to host the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was so bad, if FIFA is so bad\u2026why is it the USA wants to keep the FIFA World Cup?\u2026Something has to be wrong,\u201d Warner says.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is f%$#ed up and sh%$.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also funny as hell, but it&#8217;s f%$#ed up and sh%$.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought that the FIFA scandal could get any more surreal, or more pathetic, one of the FIFI officials accused of bribery and money laundering has cited an article from The Onion to defend himself from the charges: Jack Warner, a former vice president of FIFA, was arrested last week in connection with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1057,982,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-sports","category-stupid","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182819"}],"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=182819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}