{"id":165,"date":"2003-08-02T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-02T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2018-08-03T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:33:55","slug":"165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/02\/165\/","title":{"rendered":"Slate Chews More Carrion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2086499\/\" target=\"new\">urinates on a grave<\/a>.  Again.  Most disappointing, it&#8217;s Christopher Hitchens relieving himself of some pent-up hostility this time.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Hope might not have been laugh-out-loud, paradigm shifting, sticking-it-to-The-Man funny, but he was warm and amusing, eliciting a chuckle or two.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, this is the second time I have taken them to task for disrespecting the dead.  The first was <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/59\/\" target=\"new\">Strom Thurmond<\/a>.  Guys, it&#8217;s one thing to disagree with someone when they&#8217;re alive, but leave your spite and your dismissive wit at the door of the funeral parlor, okay?  Bob Hope was not Uday or Qusay.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\" target=\"new\">Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate magazine urinates on a grave. Again. Most disappointing, it&#8217;s Christopher Hitchens relieving himself of some pent-up hostility this time. Bob Hope might not have been laugh-out-loud, paradigm shifting, sticking-it-to-The-Man funny, but he was warm and amusing, eliciting a chuckle or two. Remember, this is the second time I have taken them to task for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21634,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/21634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}