{"id":187725,"date":"2011-03-22T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/22\/why-do-even-bother-to-write\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T00:08:00","slug":"why-do-even-bother-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/22\/why-do-even-bother-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Even Bother to Write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, I do analysis, I write explanations, and then Jon Stewart, and the rest of the staff of <i>The Daily Show<\/i> explain <b>everything<\/b>, in simpler terms, and more entertainingly, in 4 minutes and 29 seconds on air.<\/p>\n<p><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" base=\".\" flashvars=\"\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:378259\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"512\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t simultaneously fire teachers and Tomahawk missiles\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, I do analysis, I write explanations, and then Jon Stewart, and the rest of the staff of The Daily Show explain everything, in simpler terms, and more entertainingly, in 4 minutes and 29 seconds on air. You can&#8217;t simultaneously fire teachers and Tomahawk missiles\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1100,1002,986,1028,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-middle-east","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187725"}],"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=187725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}