{"id":646,"date":"2006-07-05T10:16:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T14:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2006\/07\/nostalgic_for_nixon_part_i\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T14:16:45","slug":"nostalgic_for_nixon_part_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2006\/07\/nostalgic_for_nixon_part_i\/","title":{"rendered":"NOSTALGIC FOR NIXON, PART I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody underrate comics, and satirists have an even arder time of it. Lewis Black&#8217;s recent HBO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/events\/lblack\/\" target=\"_blank\">special<\/A> made the leap &#8212; long stretches of his routine traded laughs for righteous, hard-earned bile. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/harry-shearer\/what-the-supreme-courts-_b_24104.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Herry Shearer<\/A> has a Masters in Political Science from Harvard, you can look it up, but you&#8217;d never guess it from how funny he is. He gets off the best kicker to the Supreme Court decision. (If you don&#8217;t listen to <a href=\"feed:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/podcast\/show\/ls\" target=\"_blank\">le show<\/A> every week, you are an ignoramus.)<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<B>NOBODY TOLD ME<\/B><br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusversusjohnlennon.com\/lennon-pic05.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Winnie\"><br \/>\nLion&#8217;s Gate schedules <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theusversusjohnlennon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The U.S. vs. John Lennon<\/A> for September&#8230;<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<B>QUOTE OF THE WEEK<\/B> <BR><BR><br \/>\nTom Verlaine compares himself to Perry Como on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5527064\" target=\"_blank\">Wkd Edition Sunday<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody underrate comics, and satirists have an even arder time of it. Lewis Black&#8217;s recent HBO special made the leap &#8212; long stretches of his routine traded laughs for righteous, hard-earned bile. Herry Shearer has a Masters in Political Science from Harvard, you can look it up, but you&#8217;d never guess it from how funny [&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-646","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\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}