{"id":489,"date":"2004-01-16T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T18:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/lame\/"},"modified":"2004-01-16T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T18:41:46","slug":"lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/lame\/","title":{"rendered":"Lame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had news channels for the past hour or so and all they are showing is the Santa Maria courthouse doors and <strike>losers<\/strike> Michael Jackson supporters milling around in the street, gabbing over their invitations to Neverland.<br \/>\nFunny how when there are &#8220;real&#8221; public issues, such as government abuses, they don&#8217;t usually draw demonstrators <i>or<\/i> extended media coverage.<br \/>\nLife in celebrity-struck America.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Departing Jackson motorcade requires a small army of security personnel and policeman (who should out on the beat) to clear the roadway of <strike>idiots<\/strike> fans mobbing the road.  A real circus.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Jackson SUV speeds to ranch for party with fans.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Jackson SUV passes several cars and trucks on highway.  Developing . . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/lame\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Lame\"><p>I&#8217;ve had news channels for the past hour or so and all they are showing is the Santa Maria courthouse doors and losers Michael Jackson supporters milling around in the street, gabbing over their invitations to Neverland. Funny how when there are &#8220;real&#8221; public issues, such as government abuses, they don&#8217;t usually draw demonstrators or [&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-489","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\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}