{"id":1132,"date":"2012-07-17T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2012-07-17T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T20:06:38","slug":"based-on-a-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Based On A True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/truestory\/truestory.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/truestory\/truestory650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"685\" \/><\/a><strong>No, really, it is, at least parts of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was on my way downstairs for a sandwich one late morning last week or so, and I passed by the bedroom, where the DW is catching up on some impresario chores on her laptop while the satellite box is nailed down to MSNBC. As aiways, I stop for a minute or two just to check out what they&#8217;re emitting, and it&#8217;s some woman who looked as if she were made entirely of plastic babbling an item about Hill leadership&#8217;s reaction to the discovery that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/news\/9398541\/US-Olympic-uniforms-made-in-China.html\" target=\"_blank\">US Olympic Team&#8217;s uniforms had been made in China.<\/a> Faster than you could say &#8220;eight percent unemployment&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/news\/9398541\/US-Olympic-uniforms-made-in-China.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Reid<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/07\/14\/us-olympics-usa-uniforms-idUSBRE86C14D20120714\" target=\"_blank\">John Boehner<\/a> had crapped their drawers loudly while blurting out carefully crafted Tourette&#8217;s episodes on the subject of the export of US jobs to China. After offering up this news, the anchorbabe said &#8212; for real, I shit you not &#8212; &#8220;At last, something that Democrats and Republicans can agree on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;along with war, torture, censorship, warrantless surveillance, assassinations, detention without trial&#8230;&#8221; the anchorbabe neglected to add.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;12-inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/truestory\/truestory.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">medium-res .jpg image,<\/a><\/strong> 808kb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really, it is, at least parts of it. I was on my way downstairs for a sandwich one late morning last week or so, and I passed by the bedroom, where the DW is catching up on some impresario chores on her laptop while the satellite box is nailed down to MSNBC. As aiways, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,10],"tags":[1458,188,442,99],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-elections","category-media","tag-china","tag-labor","tag-olympics","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}