{"id":197715,"date":"2008-01-16T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/this-is-the-funniest-thing-ive-read-all-week\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T11:18:00","slug":"this-is-the-funniest-thing-ive-read-all-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/this-is-the-funniest-thing-ive-read-all-week\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Funniest Thing I&#8217;ve Read All Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times has a hysterical essay on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/3cc8d772-c2a6-11dc-b617-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1\">thrill of the trappings of power<\/a>.  Read it, but don&#8217;t drink anything, you&#8217;ll have to clean your screen.<\/p>\n<p>A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cIf you fly into Camp David on a helicopter,\u201d he assured me, \u201cit\u2019s instant arousal. But if you have to go to a European summit in Brussels, its so depressing you\u2019re impotent for a week.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ROTFLMAO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times has a hysterical essay on the thrill of the trappings of power. Read it, but don&#8217;t drink anything, you&#8217;ll have to clean your screen. A sample: \u201cIf you fly into Camp David on a helicopter,\u201d he assured me, \u201cit\u2019s instant arousal. But if you have to go to a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1100,1002,978,1061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197715"}],"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=197715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}