{"id":1291,"date":"2005-10-31T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/10\/krugman_let_me_be_frank\/"},"modified":"2005-10-31T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T17:13:08","slug":"krugman_let_me_be_frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/krugman_let_me_be_frank.html","title":{"rendered":"KRUGMAN: &#8216;LET ME BE FRANK&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politely put, &#8220;it sometimes seems&#8221; they are <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/31\/opinion\/31krugman.html?hp\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Midases in reverse<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. But make no mistake: &#8220;Everything they touch &#8212; from Iraq reconstruction to hurricane relief, from prescription drug coverage to the pursuit of Osama &#8212; turns to crud.&#8221; That&#8217;s Paul Krugman this morning being frank about the Bullshitter-in-Chief and his Chief of Bullshit. Let&#8217;s not begrudge Krugman the courteous &#8220;sometimes seems&#8221; and the euphemistic &#8220;crud.&#8221; He&#8217;s not writing a blog. And he can&#8217;t use photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/10\/dazzled_and_dis.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>like this<\/strong><\/font><\/a>.<br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politely put, &#8220;it sometimes seems&#8221; they are like this. &#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-kP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}