{"id":396,"date":"2003-10-16T04:48:49","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T11:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/10\/dont_ask_why\/"},"modified":"2003-10-16T04:48:49","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T11:48:49","slug":"dont_ask_why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/10\/dont_ask_why.html","title":{"rendered":"DON’T ASK WHY"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably seen references to most of the news events that Harper’s Magazine listed the
\nother day in its Weekly Review<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>. These aren’t all of them, just the
\nones that might have been a figment of Jon Stewart’s funny bone: <\/P>
\n

A shoplifter in Amsterdam was kicked to death by supermarket employees. A lightning bolt
\nkilled 20 pregnant cows in Florida. Wesley Clark said he believes that humans will someday
\nexceed the speed of light. Arnold Schwarzenegger told his son that being governor will be a lot
\nlike making a movie. Japan was investigating an orgy in China involving 400 Japanese tourists and
\n500 Chinese prostitutes. A penis-snatcher was beaten to death in Gambia, and a monkey moved a
\nrobot with its mind.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably seen references to most of the news events that Harper’s Magazine listed the other day in its Weekly Review. These aren’t all of them, just the ones that might have been a figment of Jon Stewart’s funny bone: A shoplifter in Amsterdam was kicked to death by supermarket employees. A lightning bolt killed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-396","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-6o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}