{"id":1610,"date":"2005-04-30T22:25:01","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T02:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/runaway_stupidi\/"},"modified":"2005-04-30T22:25:01","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T02:25:01","slug":"runaway_stupidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/runaway_stupidi\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not having watched the news today, I thought <a title=\"Eschaton\" href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2005_04_24_atrios_archive.html#111487497944416511\">this post<\/a> must be exaggerated for humor.  That is, until I tuned into CNN myself a few minutes ago.<br \/>\nAt the top of the hour, they had an exclusive report from some reporter who flown on the plane with the would-be bride.  He actually described the scene as she went to use the bathroom during the flight.  And almost breathlessly, he relayed that the flight attendant had told him that the wedding is &#8220;still on.&#8221;<br \/>\nTwenty-one minutes after the hour and they were still talking about their top story.  Alas.<br \/>\nRemember when CNN used to have the reputation as a news source?<br \/>\nCNN&#8217;s question of the hour, where viewers are encourage to call in and opine, is whether or not this woman&#8217;s fiance should give her a second chance.  I think a more appropriate question is whether or not I should give CNN a second chance.  Perhaps Fox News isn&#8217;t that bad after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/runaway_stupidi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Runaway Stupidity\"><p>Not having watched the news today, I thought this post must be exaggerated for humor. That is, until I tuned into CNN myself a few minutes ago. At the top of the hour, they had an exclusive report from some reporter who flown on the plane with the would-be bride. He actually described the scene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}