{"id":191060,"date":"2009-09-29T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/29\/least-surprising-news-of-the-day-21\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T13:39:00","slug":"least-surprising-news-of-the-day-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/29\/least-surprising-news-of-the-day-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Least Surprising News of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Service is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2009\/09\/28\/secret_service_probing_facebook_poll_on_obama\/\">investigating a poll on Facebook which asked whether or not he should be assassinated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, we are dealing with the toxic interplay of the right wing&#8217;s now standard freakout over their not having the White House, see Clinton, W., and the fact that, as Gabby Johnson said in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Blazing Saddles<\/span>, &#8220;The sheriff is a n &lt;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">bell rings<\/span><\/span>&gt; er.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Service is investigating a poll on Facebook which asked whether or not he should be assassinated. Seriously, we are dealing with the toxic interplay of the right wing&#8217;s now standard freakout over their not having the White House, see Clinton, W., and the fact that, as Gabby Johnson said in Blazing Saddles, &#8220;The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1133,967,1081,1001,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assassination","category-bigotry","category-laws","category-racism","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191060"}],"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=191060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}