{"id":198028,"date":"2007-12-20T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/20\/who-says-that-irony-is-dead-13\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T05:08:00","slug":"who-says-that-irony-is-dead-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/20\/who-says-that-irony-is-dead-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Says That Irony Is Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/security\/news\/2007\/12\/blackwater\">Blackwater has decided to expand its operations into peacekeeping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess that the dead do not conduct war.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">(to the tune of Ghostbusters)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s men with guns<br \/>in your neighborhood<br \/>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s random death<br \/>and it don&#8217;t look good<br \/>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>I ain&#8217;t afraid of no mercs<br \/>I ain&#8217;t afraid of no mercs<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s a fear of death<br \/>running through your head<br \/>Who can ya call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>An populist man<br \/>turning your country red<br \/>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>I ain&#8217;t afraid of no mercs<br \/>I ain&#8217;t afraid of no mercs<\/p>\n<p>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>If ya all alone<br \/>pick up the phone<br \/>and call<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>I ain&#8217;t afraid of no mercs<br \/>I here it likes the mercst<br \/>I ain&#8217;t afraid of no mercs<br \/>Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah<\/p>\n<p>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had enough of those<br \/>Looters and scum<br \/>Ya better call<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>Lemme tell ya something<br \/>Bustin&#8217; makes me feel good!<\/p>\n<p>I ain&#8217;t afraid of no mercs<br \/>I ain&#8217;t afraid of no mercs<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get caught alone no no<\/p>\n<p>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>When it comes through your door<br \/>Unless you just want some more<br \/>I think you better call<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>I think you better call<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t hear you<br \/>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>Louder<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>Who can ya call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n<p>Who ya gonna call?<br \/>Blackwater<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true, Blackwater has decided to expand its operations into peacekeeping. Well, I guess that the dead do not conduct war. (to the tune of Ghostbusters) Blackwater If there&#8217;s men with gunsin your neighborhoodWho ya gonna call?Blackwater If there&#8217;s random deathand it don&#8217;t look goodWho ya gonna call?Blackwater I ain&#8217;t afraid of no mercsI &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1100,1179,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-funny","category-mercenaries","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198028"}],"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=198028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}