{"id":945,"date":"2006-02-26T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T03:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2006-02-26T19:38:14","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T03:38:14","slug":"why-sarah-vowell-is-better-than-maudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/26\/why-sarah-vowell-is-better-than-maudo\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Sarah Vowell is better than MauDo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/26\/opinion\/26vowell.html?8hpib\">Sarah Vowell, NYT:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Seems as if American voters picked the current president because they thought he&#8217;d be a fun hang at a cookout \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a jokey neighbor who charred a mean burger and is good at playing Frisbee with his dog. What we should be doing is electing a president with the nitpicky paranoia you&#8217;d use to choose a cardiologist \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a stunted conversationalist with dark-circled eyes and paper-cut fingertips who will stay up until 3 tearing into medical journals in five languages trying to figure out how to save your life.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Vowell, NYT: Seems as if American voters picked the current president because they thought he&#8217;d be a fun hang at a cookout \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a jokey neighbor who charred a mean burger and is good at playing Frisbee with his dog. What we should be doing is electing a president with the nitpicky paranoia you&#8217;d use to choose a cardiologist \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a stunted conversationalist with dark-circled eyes and paper-cut fingertips who will stay up until 3 tearing into medical journals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"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":[50,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-domestic-affairs","category-politics","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-ff","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}