{"id":4530,"date":"2009-04-07T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2009-04-07T13:06:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T18:06:41","slug":"he-died-and-went-toobama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4530","title":{"rendered":"He died and went to&#8230;Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;another promising career&#8230;.sacrificed in the name of Hopey Changey<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard (because its so relevant to the average American) Kal Penn&#8217;s character, Dr.\u00a0 Lawrence Kutner offed himself on last night&#8217;s &#8220;Can&#8217;t! Miss!!!<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>&#8221; episode of House, M.D., and they are making an insipid attempt to make it &#8220;real&#8221; with a tribute video and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/kutner\/\">memorial web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The next day (he should have waited three, maybe?) he is resurrected.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Actor and longtime Obama supporter Kal Penn is joining the Obama administration, the White House confirmed to CNN  Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s he going to be doing, what with all the qualifications he now possesses, having not <em>been<\/em> a doctor but <em>playing one<\/em> on TV?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The actor will be part of the White House Office of Public Liaison, which is  run by Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. Penn will be primarily involved in  dealing with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and the arts community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come again? So he&#8217;ll be liaising (yes, its now a word) with Obama and his peeps.<\/p>\n<p>Not what you&#8217;d call a lateral move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;another promising career&#8230;.sacrificed in the name of Hopey Changey\u00ae. In case you haven&#8217;t heard (because its so relevant to the average American) Kal Penn&#8217;s character, Dr.\u00a0 Lawrence Kutner offed himself on last night&#8217;s &#8220;Can&#8217;t! Miss!!!\u00ae&#8221; episode of House, M.D., and they are making an insipid attempt to make it &#8220;real&#8221; with a tribute video and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,64,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-president-obama","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}