{"id":184630,"date":"2012-03-01T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/01\/alpha-mike-foxtrot\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T23:42:00","slug":"alpha-mike-foxtrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/01\/alpha-mike-foxtrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Mike Foxtrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/D6SdQ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/D6SdQ.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>H\/t JR at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>&nbsp; for the pic<\/i><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;ct2=us%2F0_0_s_30_0_t&amp;usg=AFQjCNFUgCYY1AGZ1Bx9llIfLciuWGOqmg&amp;did=58ce2936fdd2de7b&amp;sig2=n1uoqoyePulP8q5CrpCWYg&amp;cid=8797808285557&amp;ei=HDRQT_ihO8iggwfVdw&amp;rt=STORY&amp;vm=STANDARD&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flatimesblogs.latimes.com%2Flanow%2F2012%2F03%2Fandrew-breitbart-dead-natural-causes-.html\">Andrew Breitbart is dead<\/a>.  It appears to be natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, this would be the place where I take the high road, and when someone has died, if you don&#8217;t have anything nice to say, then don&#8217;t say anything, followed by a couple of inches of white space.<\/p>\n<p>But I remember what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0809\/26475.html\">he said when Edward Kennedy died<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Andrew Breitbart, a Washington Times columnist who oversees Breitbart.com and BigHollywood.com, tapped into the anti-Kennedy vein in the hours after the senator\u2019s death was announced, posting a series of Twitter messages in which he called Kennedy a \u201cvillain,\u201d a \u201cduplicitous bastard\u201d and a \u201cprick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m more than willing to go off decorum to ensure THIS MAN is not beatified,\u201d Breitbart wrote. \u201cSorry, he destroyed lives. And he knew it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I will follow his example, and note that the only thing that he <b>ever<\/b> did to make the world a better place was to leave it.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Shirley Sharrod continues her suit, and manages to get his damn fillings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/t JR at the Stellar Parthenon BBS&nbsp; for the pic Andrew Breitbart is dead. It appears to be natural causes. Normally, this would be the place where I take the high road, and when someone has died, if you don&#8217;t have anything nice to say, then don&#8217;t say anything, followed by a couple of inches &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184630"}],"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=184630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}