{"id":185614,"date":"2014-09-29T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/29\/john-oliver-certainly-has-a-way-with-words\/"},"modified":"2014-09-29T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T02:04:00","slug":"john-oliver-certainly-has-a-way-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/29\/john-oliver-certainly-has-a-way-with-words\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Certainly has a Way With Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver&#8217;s monologue about the US drone policy notes that US drone policies are like, &#8220;Harvey Keitel&#8217;s balls,&#8221; because, &#8220;From a distance you think, &#8216;Well, I understand the contours of those.&#8217; But if you were to really examine them, you&#8217;d discover that they&#8217;re actually lost in a haze of fuzziness and gray areas. Much like the rules for our drone strikes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama is giving Henry Kissinger some serious competition for &#8220;Worst American recipient of the Nobel Prize ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K4NRJoCNHIs?list=PLmKbqjSZR8TZa7wyVoVq2XMHxxWREyiFc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver&#8217;s monologue about the US drone policy notes that US drone policies are like, &#8220;Harvey Keitel&#8217;s balls,&#8221; because, &#8220;From a distance you think, &#8216;Well, I understand the contours of those.&#8217; But if you were to really examine them, you&#8217;d discover that they&#8217;re actually lost in a haze of fuzziness and gray areas. Much like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,986,1028,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-middle-east","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185614"}],"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=185614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}