{"id":1108,"date":"2007-01-30T13:09:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/01\/30\/evil-bad-men\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T18:09:55","slug":"evil-bad-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/evil-bad-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil, Bad Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in years, Hillary Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/28\/us\/politics\/28cnd-hillary.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;ex=1170046800&amp;amp;en=cc99d0e54c08d953&amp;ei=5094&amp;partner=homepage&amp;oref=slogin\">says something honest and funny<\/a> that made me smile.  Is it surprising that the media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/2007\/01\/post_2606.html\">don&#8217;t know how to react<\/a>, and run around in <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/more_hillary_ab.html\">rapidly shrinking hermeneutic circles<\/a> in attempt to make sense of this phenomenon?  No, it is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a joke, people!  A pretty good joke, actually.  Good for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in years, Hillary Clinton says something honest and funny that made me smile. Is it surprising that the media don&#8217;t know how to react, and run around in rapidly shrinking hermeneutic circles in attempt to make sense of this phenomenon? No, it is not surprising. It&#8217;s a joke, people! A pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}