{"id":218,"date":"2008-09-12T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=218"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:09:48","slug":"yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Yikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who thinks there&#8217;s anything intelligent or redeeming in the American media, I present to you CNN&#8217;s headline from a little while ago:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/uploads\/userfiles\/3\/hurricane_yikes.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our newspapers are all at a fourth grade reading level&#8230; I think CNN is somewhere around first grade.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re keeping up with the 2008 Hurricane season in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/forums\/index.php\/topic,3397.0.html\" target=\"_blank\">this thread<\/a> on the GS forums, if you&#8217;re bored.<\/p>\n<p>I would go on more about how this is a stupid, illiterate country&#8230; But I&#8217;ve lost all motivation and hope here in the Age of Palin.\u00a0 We deserve what we get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who thinks there&#8217;s anything intelligent or redeeming in the American media, I present to you CNN&#8217;s headline from a little while ago:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[207,208],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-hurricanes","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}