{"id":1014,"date":"2008-06-20T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2008-06-19T20:56:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T00:56:49","slug":"finally-friday-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/06\/20\/finally-friday-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally Friday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the future of the human race, sometimes I&#8217;m hopeful.  Mostly, not so much.  While I, personally, have no desire to suffer and die, I&#8217;m pretty sure the universe would be better without us.  If you&#8217;ve ever thought otherwise, sit down and watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxedoutmovie.com\/syn\/index.html\">Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I think we&#8217;re all as horrible as these people are &#8211; or even that more than a small percentage of humans are despicable. It&#8217;s that we &#8211; the vast majority &#8211; allow these scumbag bottom feeders to rule the world.  <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why the sooner we make room for a species that won&#8217;t poison the planet we were lucky enough to have been given, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the future of the human race, sometimes I&#8217;m hopeful. Mostly, not so much. While I, personally, have no desire to suffer and die, I&#8217;m pretty sure the universe would be better without us. If you&#8217;ve ever thought otherwise, sit down and watch Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}