{"id":193563,"date":"2008-12-06T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/06\/the-onion-is-a-national-treasure\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T22:16:00","slug":"the-onion-is-a-national-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/06\/the-onion-is-a-national-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Onion is a National Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/opinion\/im_really_gonna_miss?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">I&#8217;m Really Gonna Miss Systematically Destroying This Place<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Oh, America. Eight years went by so fast, didn&#8217;t they? I feel like I hardly got to know you and methodically undermine everything you once stood for. But I guess all good things must come to an end, and even though you know I would love to stick around for another year or four\u2014maybe privatize Social Security or get us into Iran\u2014I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s time to go. But before I leave, let me say, from the bottom of my heart: I can&#8217;t think of another country I would&#8217;ve rather led to the brink of collapse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Really Gonna Miss Systematically Destroying This Place Oh, America. Eight years went by so fast, didn&#8217;t they? I feel like I hardly got to know you and methodically undermine everything you once stood for. But I guess all good things must come to an end, and even though you know I would love to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1002],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-good-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193563"}],"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=193563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}