{"id":438,"date":"2002-12-04T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-04T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:43:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:43:29","slug":"sad-but-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Sad but True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some more thought-provoking political humor, a friend sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/uclickcomics\/20021202\/cx_tr_uc\/tr20021202\" Target=\"Offsite\">this cartoon<\/a> about the exploitaition of the 9\/11\/2001 tragedy to accomplish all kinds of political goals.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s amazing what kinds of stuff has been railroaded through in packages like the USA Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Bill.<br \/>\nCombined with the plans to privatize much of the federal government, this adds up to a huge financial windfall for the corporate donors to the GOP who will now be richly rewarded, at great cost to the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some more thought-provoking political humor, a friend sent me this cartoon about the exploitaition of the 9\/11\/2001 tragedy to accomplish all kinds of political goals. It&#8217;s amazing what kinds of stuff has been railroaded through in packages like the USA Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Bill. Combined with the plans to privatize much&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=438\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sad but True<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-74","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}