{"id":1710,"date":"2009-04-29T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2009-04-29T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T11:35:25","slug":"wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/29\/wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good lord&#8230; I&#8217;m offline for a few days and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=103494550\">Bea Arthur dies<\/a>, the news media does its best to convince everyone that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_Trips\">Captain Trips<\/a> has broken out and we&#8217;re all doomed, some bonehead decides it&#8217;d be really cool to photograph Air Force One over New York City without bothering to tell everyone not to panic when they see a low-flying jumbo jet being pursued by an F-16, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/30\/us\/politics\/30specter.html?ref=politics\">Arlen Specter switches parties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You know, sometimes it&#8217;s a good thing to be uninformed about what&#8217;s going on in the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, my weekend road trip was grand. There was naturally a huge backlog waiting for me at the office this morning, but I&#8217;ll try to find the time to jot down some travel stories in the next little while&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good lord&#8230; I&#8217;m offline for a few days and Bea Arthur dies, the news media does its best to convince everyone that Captain Trips has broken out and we&#8217;re all doomed, some bonehead decides it&#8217;d be really cool to photograph Air Force One over New York City without bothering to tell everyone not to panic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}