{"id":550,"date":"2005-08-14T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2005\/08\/special_sunday_upgrade\/"},"modified":"2005-08-14T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2005-08-14T06:00:27","slug":"special_sunday_upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2005\/08\/special_sunday_upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL SUNDAY UPGRADE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This date (August 9) carries a special meaning for us geezers who remember George Bush Sr., then heading up the RNC, as one of Tricky Dick&#8217;s more ornate apologists. We like to read old copies of STONE, turn up some Bad Company and hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smirkingchimp.com\/viewtopic.php?topic=56761&#038;forum=19\" target=\"_blank\">Nixon Monument<\/A> (#15 of 16, description only, of B. Kliban&#8217;s cartoon: SEND IT ON). Who knew Reagan, and now Bush&#8217;s brat, would make &#8220;We Won&#8217;t Get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465045790\/qid=1124034930\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-5186125-7597559\" target=\"_blank\">Fooled Again<\/A>&#8221; sound even more naive. (Further reading: NIXON AGONISTES, by Gary Wills.)<BR><BR><br \/>\n<B>A QUAKER &#8220;THING&#8221;<\/B><BR><BR><br \/>\nJust caught up with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/sixfeetunder\/episode\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">All Alone<\/A>,&#8221; the latest episode of SIX FEET UNDER, emotional kryptonite for anyone suffering a recent death in the family. Nate&#8217;s &#8220;too pure for this world&#8221; Cobain quote just about summed up his character. Like, idealists always DIE on us.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<B>GOD IS AN ASSHOLE<\/B><BR><BR><br \/>\nSounds like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeoutny.com\/hotseat\/506\/506.hotseat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/A> line&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This date (August 9) carries a special meaning for us geezers who remember George Bush Sr., then heading up the RNC, as one of Tricky Dick&#8217;s more ornate apologists. We like to read old copies of STONE, turn up some Bad Company and hit the Nixon Monument (#15 of 16, description only, of B. Kliban&#8217;s [&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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}