{"id":4179,"date":"2007-02-08T21:37:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T04:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/02\/08\/the-really-important-stuff\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T21:37:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T04:37:23","slug":"the-really-important-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/the-really-important-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The really important stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA couple of days ago, Professor Weinberger was complaining that the diaper-wearing nutcase feminist astronaut story was going to wipe out serious news for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/murderous_woman_astronaut_in_a.html\">two weeks,<\/a> but that cable news obsession will probably pale in comparison with what I expect to be an avalanche of fake mourning for Anna Nicole Smith, arguably the most worthless example of misspent protoplasm in recent history. <\/p>\n<p>John Cole notes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/?p=7874\">the irony:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI can not be alone in my observation that it is rather humorous that the person who most likely will rescue two feminists from public scrutiny is a stripper\/turned Playmate who graduated into a full-fledged celebrity drunk, an addict and alcoholic through and through, as well as a terrible mother.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No dude, you aren&#8217;t alone.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, by the way, there&#8217;s some sort of trial thing going on in Washington, but the tragic loss of America&#8217;s Princess depressed the prosecutor so bad he had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/08\/AR2007020800865.html\">rest his case<\/a>. Or something.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, Professor Weinberger was complaining that the diaper-wearing nutcase feminist astronaut story was going to wipe out serious news for two weeks, but that cable news obsession will probably pale in comparison with what I expect to be an avalanche of fake mourning for Anna Nicole Smith, arguably the most worthless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/the-really-important-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The really important stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-15p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}