{"id":193414,"date":"2008-12-17T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/17\/more-people-who-write-and-think-better-than-i-am-able-too\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:05:00","slug":"more-people-who-write-and-think-better-than-i-am-able-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/17\/more-people-who-write-and-think-better-than-i-am-able-too\/","title":{"rendered":"More People Who Write (and Think) Better Than I am Able Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s Jonathan Schwarz of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyrevolution.com\/mt\/archives\/002560.html\">A Tiny Revolution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>There&#8217;s a rule of thumb for American politics that will never steer you wrong: if the Washington press corps worships a political figure and squeaks for decades on end about how he&#8217;s a Brave Man of Honor and Wisdom, that political figure is one of the most dangerous lying scumbags on earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would only add that sometimes *cough* John McCain *cough* he&#8217;s also batsh%$ insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s Jonathan Schwarz of A Tiny Revolution: There&#8217;s a rule of thumb for American politics that will never steer you wrong: if the Washington press corps worships a political figure and squeaks for decades on end about how he&#8217;s a Brave Man of Honor and Wisdom, that political figure is one of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1003,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193414"}],"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=193414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}