{"id":58698,"date":"2016-05-06T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58698"},"modified":"2016-05-06T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:03:13","slug":"a-word-is-worth-a-thousand-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58698","title":{"rendered":"A Word Is Worth A Thousand Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AKA: \u00a0Why SITD Is Better Than &#8220;This Week Tonight&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his\u00a0<em>de facto\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;Daily Show&#8221; spinoff, John Oliver took twenty looong minutes\u00a0to work up to his big scoop about Donald Trump; the big conclusion of his long, sometimes incisive, long, sometimes interesting, long, long bit on Trump was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DnpO_RTSNmQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;his family name was originally &#8220;Drumpf&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>All that build-up to mock an ancestral name.<\/p>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p>I raise John Oliver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/trumpery\">the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>trumpery &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>noun trum\u00b7pery \\\u02c8tr\u0259m-p(\u0259-)r\u0113\\<br \/>\nDefinition of trumpery<br \/>\n1 &#8211;\u00a0a : worthless nonsense. \u00a0b : trivial or useless articles : \u00a0junk &lt;a wagon loaded with household trumpery \u2014<br \/>\n2 &#8211;\u00a0archaic : tawdry finery<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Berg, win.<\/p>\n<p>(Via my high school and college classmate Eric D)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKA: \u00a0Why SITD Is Better Than &#8220;This Week Tonight&#8221; On his\u00a0de facto\u00a0&#8220;Daily Show&#8221; spinoff, John Oliver took twenty looong minutes\u00a0to work up to his big scoop about Donald Trump; the big conclusion of his long, sometimes incisive, long, sometimes interesting, long, long bit on Trump was&#8230; &#8230;his family name was originally &#8220;Drumpf&#8221;. All that build-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698","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=58698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58699,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698\/revisions\/58699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}