{"id":203,"date":"2005-08-28T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T04:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=203"},"modified":"2005-08-28T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T04:03:16","slug":"katrina-and-the-kos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Katrina and the Kos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About twelve hours ago I toyed with the idea of writing a satire in<br \/>\nwhich the Bush-haters blame W. for the magnitude of the disaster<br \/>\nbearing down on New Orleans.  I discarded the idea on the grounds that<br \/>\nit&#8217;s (a) not funny, and (b) not believable enough.  I mean, who could<br \/>\nreally imagine <em>that<\/em> theory even from a barking moonbat?<\/p>\n<p>Shows you what I know.  One of the contributors at Daily Kos has already<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/archives\/006914.php\">flung those feces<\/a>,<br \/>\nbefore Katrina lands, yet.  And &mdash; here&#8217;s the funny part &mdash;<br \/>\nthe charge is already falsified by the facts on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of George W. Bush.  But when his opponents are<br \/>\nthis transcendently foaming-at-the-mouth idiotic, it&#8217;s hard not to<br \/>\nwind up supporting him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About twelve hours ago I toyed with the idea of writing a satire in which the Bush-haters blame W. for the magnitude of the disaster bearing down on New Orleans. I discarded the idea on the grounds that it&#8217;s (a) not funny, and (b) not believable enough. I mean, who could really imagine that theory&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=203\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Katrina and the Kos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}