{"id":2550,"date":"2010-01-22T19:41:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2010-01-22T19:41:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:41:20","slug":"well_that_sucke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2550","title":{"rendered":"Well, That Sucked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m more than happy to see this week come to a close. The Democrats still seem to be doing a spot-on imitation of a bowl full of quivering jelly, but there are signs that <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/postpartisan\/2010\/01\/how_the_democrats_may_solve_th.html\">sanity may be taking hold again<\/a>. It would be a stretch to describe what I&#8217;m feeling as optimism, but it&#8217;s also not complete and utter dejection. <\/p>\n<p>But politics and policy will have to be set aside for tonight as I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/business\/media\/22conan.html\">bid adieu to Conan until the fall<\/a>. The fact that Conan has to go off the air while the exceedingly unfunny Leno gets rewarded for failure speaks volumes about the state of our society. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m more than happy to see this week come to a close. The Democrats still seem to be doing a spot-on imitation of a bowl full of quivering jelly, but there are signs that sanity may be taking hold again. It would be a stretch to describe what I&#8217;m feeling as optimism, but it&#8217;s also <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2550' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-F8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}