{"id":338,"date":"2005-05-18T15:35:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2005-05-18T15:35:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T22:35:42","slug":"no-now-they-have-really-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"No, <em>now<\/em> they have really won."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a site that relishes superlatives and wallows in vitriol (or so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/\">some<\/a> say). So it takes quite a effort to compel me to reach for loftier heights of derision, but it&#8217;s a sad day when I have to. I used to think the worst example of callous, self-interested behavior I witnessed as regard the WTC came the day after, when I overhead two men, oblivious to the streams of people carting supplies from wherever they could to the depot at Chelsea Piers, discuss taking a ski trip in Argentina &#8220;because airline tickets will be so cheap now&#8221;. Surely there were grander and most officious slights to follow, but something about proximity and indifference made this moment most acute. Now, to my dismay and fury, I must set the bar higher. I would say I expect it to be a threshhold that cannot be superceded, but it&#8217;s only Wednesday, and who knows what this worthless human being will do by the end of the week. If anyone gets within arms&#8217; reach of this man, will you do me a favor and punch him in the face as hard as you can (aim low, he&#8217;s short)? Not just one of you: all of you. Everyone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump mentioned that he will draw attention to the proposal during this week&#8217;s live broadcast of &#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221; The model will &#8220;probably&#8221; be displayed during the broadcast of the highly rated show, Trump said, &#8220;so the whole country can see it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a site that relishes superlatives and wallows in vitriol (or so some say). So it takes quite a effort to compel me to reach for loftier heights of derision, but it&#8217;s a sad day when I have to. I used to think the worst example of callous, self-interested behavior I witnessed as regard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}