{"id":268,"date":"2006-06-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2006-06-25T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T22:36:32","slug":"monday-open-thread-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/06\/26\/monday-open-thread-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, explain to me again why I give a shit that Nicole Kidman married Keith Urban (whoever that is)?  I mean, they were <strong><em>rumored<\/em><\/strong> to be gonna get married, they were <strong><em>gonna<\/em><\/strong> get married, they were gonna get married <strong><em>any day now<\/em><\/strong>, and now they&#8217;re frickin&#8217; married.  Well, whoopdie freakin&#8217; doo, man.  I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I hope they&#8217;ll be happy and he won&#8217;t turn into a crazy fuckin&#8217; scientologist or something, but I barely care when somebody I actually <strong><em>know<\/em><\/strong> gets married, I sure as hell don&#8217;t care when strangers do it.  Then I&#8217;m checking out of the grocery store, and I see she&#8217;s got a &#8220;bump.&#8221;  Oh, fer crissakes.  Now they&#8217;ll be relentless with that shit until she has puppies.  <\/p>\n<p>Look, unless one or both of &#8217;em comes out and says we need to pull out of Iraq as soon as possible, and oh, by the way Bush &#038; Cheney should be impeached (and convicted), and damnit it&#8217;s about time the Marc Maron Show was syndicated, well then goddamn it, I don&#8217;t wanna hear <strong><em>from<\/em><\/strong> or <strong><em>about<\/em><\/strong> them.<\/p>\n<p>But, anyways, I suppose today will mark the start of another week filled with nasty things directly screwing with our right to life, liberty, and the presuit of happiness being overshadowed by a whole lotta stupid shit about celebrity babies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/news\/story.html?id=b5f37355-200d-443a-8a32-05bc3bb0fc5b\">demoted goats<\/a> (OK, I thought that one was funny, especially the guy who said Billy the Goat &#8220;was trying to headbutt the waist and nether regions of the drummers&#8221;), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/06\/25\/plane.diverted.ap\/index.html\">bimbos battling aboard JetBlue<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, whatever happens this week &#8211; reported on or not &#8211; I hope, by the end of it,  y&#8217;all find yourself a little bit closer to that whole happiness thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, explain to me again why I give a shit that Nicole Kidman married Keith Urban (whoever that is)? I mean, they were rumored to be gonna get married, they were gonna get married, they were gonna get married any day now, and now they&#8217;re frickin&#8217; married. Well, whoopdie freakin&#8217; doo, man. I mean, don&#8217;t [&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-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}