{"id":14374,"date":"2015-03-13T06:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14374"},"modified":"2015-03-13T06:31:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:31:25","slug":"how-have-things-improved-thirty-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/how-have-things-improved-thirty-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"How Have Things Improved Thirty Years Later?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thehumanfly.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">I recently read The Human Fly #15 (Marvel Comics 1978) with its cover line &#8220;War in the Washington Monument!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Human Fly is a stuntman who fights crime, and it&#8217;s apparently based on a real stunt man from the era who did charity events.  But that&#8217;s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n<p>The plot of this particular issue is that (SPOILER ALERT!) two Vietnam veterans, one confined to a wheel chair and one mentally unstable, have taken over the Washington Monument to protest the conditions at their local VA hospital where the greedy <em>doctors<\/em> enrich themselves at the expense of the suffering veterans.  Don&#8217;t worry, the Human Fly prevents them from destroying the monument, but it&#8217;s still going to be closed to the public the next time you&#8217;re in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years later and many reforms later, and we&#8217;re pretty clear now it&#8217;s not the doctors who are the problem.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty said that these particular plots can be recycled for a quarter of a century when dealing with government programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read The Human Fly #15 (Marvel Comics 1978) with its cover line &#8220;War in the Washington Monument!&#8221; The Human Fly is a stuntman who fights crime, and it&#8217;s apparently based on a real stunt man from the era who did charity events. But that&#8217;s neither here nor there. The plot of this particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14375,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions\/14375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}