{"id":277,"date":"2006-06-01T07:16:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T07:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/01\/a-hubriscrazed-monster-from-th\/"},"modified":"2006-06-01T07:16:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T07:16:01","slug":"a-hubriscrazed-monster-from-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/01\/a-hubriscrazed-monster-from-th\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hubris-Crazed Monster from the Bowels of the American Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via sennoma<\/a> (I’m not sure that link will work, as the server appeared to be down this morning), Hunter S. Thompson’s obituary for Nixon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You know, in a sense, Thompson was the original ranting political blogger. He had his personal problems, but his better writing was really a nice counter to the bland and mannered pablum that the mass media serve up about most issues. This piece in particular was a really refreshing contrast to all the weird haigography that got busted out after Nixon’s death. It’s nice to see it up on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via sennoma (I’m not sure that link will work, as the server appeared to be down this morning), Hunter S. Thompson’s obituary for Nixon: If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of… Continue reading A Hubris-Crazed Monster from the Bowels of the American Dream<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}