{"id":1487,"date":"2006-11-30T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T17:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/11\/by_the_way\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T17:20:35","slug":"by_the_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/11\/by_the_way.html","title":{"rendered":"By the Way . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re doin&#8217; business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn&#8217;t worth shit, not with the Good Lord tellin&#8217; him how to fuck you on the deal.&#8221; That excellent advice, offered long ago by William S. Burroughs, puts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/international\/29letter.1.pdf\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>latest message<\/strong><\/font><\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/4107270.stm\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Iran&#8217;s chief Jew hater<\/strong><\/font><\/a> in the proper perspective. The same goes for the <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=2006-11-30T110640Z_01_L29423392_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ.xml&#038;WTmodLoc=NewsLanding-C1-Headline-8\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>latest message<\/strong><\/font><\/a> from the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/08\/jim_holts_criti.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Bullshitter-in-Chief<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Typically, however, neither message from these jokers is worth getting in writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re doin&#8217; business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn&#8217;t worth shit, not with the Good Lord tellin&#8217; him how to fuck you on the deal.&#8221; That excellent advice, offered long ago by William S. Burroughs, puts the Iran&#8217;s chief Jew hater in the proper perspective. The [&hellip;]<\/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-1487","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-nZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","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=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}