{"id":185653,"date":"2014-09-17T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/17\/now-thats-a-real-shame-when-folks-be-throwin-away-a-perfectly-good-white-boy-like-that\/"},"modified":"2014-09-17T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T23:14:00","slug":"now-thats-a-real-shame-when-folks-be-throwin-away-a-perfectly-good-white-boy-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/17\/now-thats-a-real-shame-when-folks-be-throwin-away-a-perfectly-good-white-boy-like-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That&#8217;s a Real Shame When Folks Be Throwin&#8217; Away a Perfectly Good White Boy Like That"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding:5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=x_lon_ukrainetrash_140916\" width=\"381\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/><i><\/i><\/div>\n<p>In the Ukraine, a member of the parliament was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/ukraine-crisis\/angry-mob-tosses-ukrainian-politician-trash-n204456\">accosted by an angry crowd and thrown in the dumpster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now I do understand that the intersection of &#8220;Ukrainian Politician,&#8221; and &#8220;Perfectly Good White Boy&#8221; is a null set, but how often does one get to quote the cult favorite teen movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088794\"><i>Better off Dead<\/i><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I will note, however, that what the crowd did is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>They should have pantsed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Ukraine, a member of the parliament was accosted by an angry crowd and thrown in the dumpster. Now I do understand that the intersection of &#8220;Ukrainian Politician,&#8221; and &#8220;Perfectly Good White Boy&#8221; is a null set, but how often does one get to quote the cult favorite teen movie Better off Dead? I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1040,978,1027,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-former-soviet-union","category-politics","category-video","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185653"}],"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=185653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}