{"id":193124,"date":"2009-01-17T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/17\/matt-taibbi-is-a-national-treasure\/"},"modified":"2009-01-17T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T04:46:00","slug":"matt-taibbi-is-a-national-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/17\/matt-taibbi-is-a-national-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Taibbi is a National Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html\">devastating take-down of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman<\/a> is one of many jewels that drip from his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">My initial answer to that is that Friedman\u2019s language choices over the years have been highly revealing: When a man who thinks you need to break a vase to get the water out of it starts arguing that you need to invade a country in order to change the minds of its people, you might want to start paying attention to how his approach to the vase problem worked out.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><\/span>Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And his devastating take-down of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is one of many jewels that drip from his mouth. A sample: My initial answer to that is that Friedman\u2019s language choices over the years have been highly revealing: When a man who thinks you need to break a vase to get the water &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193124"}],"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=193124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}