{"id":296,"date":"2007-11-10T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T00:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/10\/if-i-controlled-the-news\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T00:37:12","slug":"if-i-controlled-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/10\/if-i-controlled-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Controlled the News&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Things I care 0% about:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Norman Miller: No offense to his fans, but I&#8217;ve never even heard of him. It&#8217;s sad that another human is dead, sure, but if we don&#8217;t care when the 997th child of the day dies from malaria, why do we care that Normal Miller died?<\/li>\n    <li>The TV guild strikes. I don&#8217;t watch much TV. The Daily Show is funny&#8230; But if Jon Stewart is really funny, he should write his own stuff. Same for The Office. I can just not watch the TV shows. I usually don&#8217;t anyway.<\/li>\n    <li>The Harry Potter lexicon (?) being delayed.<\/li>\n    <li>Whether or not Michael Jackson will retain ownership of Neverland ranch.<\/li>\n    <li>Statistics about daylight savings time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News that I care about >5% that seems to have received <5% of the news' attention:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Michael Mukasey <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7086310.stm\">was appointed<\/a>. In other news, per the photo, Michael Mukasey has really good taste in ties.<\/li>\n    <li>The seemingly-<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7088215.stm\">crumbling<\/a> economy (and, in turn, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7087370.stm\">dollar valuation<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7070935.stm\">housing market<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I care 0% about: Norman Miller: No offense to his fans, but I&#8217;ve never even heard of him. It&#8217;s sad that another human is dead, sure, but if we don&#8217;t care when the 997th child of the day dies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/10\/if-i-controlled-the-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanitarianism","category-lists","category-politics","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}