{"id":3646,"date":"2008-11-19T06:05:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T11:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2008-11-17T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T00:49:08","slug":"by-way-of-noting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3646","title":{"rendered":"By Way Of Noting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that the staff of The Onion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=45&#038;aid=154217\">won&#8217;t be missing their target of the past eight years, George W. Bush<\/a>, nosirreebob&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, God, no,&#8221; says feature editor Joe Garden. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a nightmare trying to figure out what to do with him [in the paper].&#8221; From the Onion&#8217;s standpoint, Barack Obama&#8217;s nomination and his rock-star celebrity were good news, &#8220;simply because he has people interested in politics, which lets us satirize something people care about,&#8221; says Garden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;I have been meaning to ask for quite a while &#8211; isn&#8217;t it time to start satirizing <em>The Onion<\/em>?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or have they been phoning it in for the past year or two?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that the staff of The Onion won&#8217;t be missing their target of the past eight years, George W. Bush, nosirreebob&#8230;: Oh, God, no,&#8221; says feature editor Joe Garden. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a nightmare trying to figure out what to do with him [in the paper].&#8221; From the Onion&#8217;s standpoint, Barack Obama&#8217;s nomination and his rock-star celebrity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}