{"id":186513,"date":"2014-01-01T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/01\/our-pundit-class-is-evil-and-stupid\/"},"modified":"2014-01-01T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T23:53:00","slug":"our-pundit-class-is-evil-and-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/01\/our-pundit-class-is-evil-and-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Pundit Class is Evil and Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, Ruth Marcus.  Her latest article is titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ruth-marcus-snowden-the-insufferable-whistleblower\/2013\/12\/31\/7649539a-7250-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html\">Snowden, the insufferable whistleblower<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She is certainly upset that Edward Snowden opposes the DC consensus of global hegemony and contractor excesses that pays for those cocktail parties that she hangs out at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, Ruth Marcus. Her latest article is titled, &#8220;Snowden, the insufferable whistleblower.&#8221; She is certainly upset that Edward Snowden opposes the DC consensus of global hegemony and contractor excesses that pays for those cocktail parties that she hangs out at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1062,1102,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-espionage","category-intelligence","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186513"}],"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=186513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}