{"id":1797,"date":"2010-09-10T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T18:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2010\/09\/absoflipping_hilarious_acciden\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T18:11:20","slug":"absoflipping_hilarious_acciden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2010\/09\/absoflipping_hilarious_acciden.html","title":{"rendered":"Too Funny Not to Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we know about 9\/11. We&#8217;re still reeling from it. The event itself was catastrophic. But the pols and war profiteers have put it to ruinous use ever since. So I&#8217;ll save my customary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/09\/best_911_memorial.html\">Best 9\/11 Memorial<\/a> posting for next year, when the 10th anniversary comes around. Besides, how many times can you post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/09\/still_the_best_911_memorial.html\">Still the Best 9\/11 Memorial<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2009\/09\/best_911_memorial_redux.html\">Still the Best 9\/11 Memorial, Redux<\/a> &#8230; without cheapening the idea? Instead, on a tip from a staffer, have a good laugh at this piece of CIA history.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/video_embed\/?id=18056\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/video\/ospan-classic-cia-accidentally-overthrows-costa-ri,18056\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"O-SPAN Classic: CIA Accidentally Overthrows Costa Rica\">O-SPAN Classic: CIA Accidentally Overthrows Costa Rica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we know about 9\/11. We&#8217;re still reeling from it. The event itself was catastrophic. But the pols and war profiteers have put it to ruinous use ever since. So I&#8217;ll save my customary Best 9\/11 Memorial posting for next year, when the 10th anniversary comes around. Besides, how many times can you post Still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-sZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","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=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}