{"id":483,"date":"2002-10-06T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-06T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=483"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:43:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:43:55","slug":"im-not-making-this-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not making this up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can count on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davebarry.com\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">Dave Barry<\/a> to provide bloggable material.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m not making this up&#8221; is his common lead-in to a story that&#8217;s so bizarre nobody could possibly have made it up.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And, if he wasn&#8217;t writing for &#8220;family&#8221; newspapers, he could even have prefaced his<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/living\/columnists\/dave_barry\/4213398.htm\" Target=\"Offsite\">latest column<\/a> with the expression &#8220;No Shit!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nApparently several art museums have paid a substantial price for art work that consists of a sealed can containing roughly an ounce of the artist&#8217;s output.<br \/>\nMy own reaction was &#8220;&#36;35,000 an ounce? Now that must be some GOOD shit, man!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can count on Dave Barry to provide bloggable material. &#8220;I&#8217;m not making this up&#8221; is his common lead-in to a story that&#8217;s so bizarre nobody could possibly have made it up.<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-7N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}