{"id":2543,"date":"2004-06-21T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2004-06-21T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T18:04:00","slug":"marion-barry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2543","title":{"rendered":"Marion Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that it may make my political views more comprehensible to remember that I grew up near Washington DC.  My somewhat cynical views on politics probably stem from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptictank.org\/barry.htm\">Marion Barry<\/a> more than anything else.  Of course, years of early exposure to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\">washington post<\/a> couldn&#8217;t have helped.<\/p>\n<p>In our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b3ta.com\">random junk on the web<\/a> department, we have a <a href=\"http:\/\/ahpc-jp30.st-and.ac.uk\/~josh\/flags\/meth.html\">grades for national flags<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebaumsworld.com\/metalcat.html\">thrasher cat<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.co.uk\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=8107675670\">ebay punishment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;\"><strong>Originally published at <a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=254\">chris.dwan.org<\/a>. You can comment here or <a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=254#comments\">there<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that it may make my political views more comprehensible to remember that I grew up near Washington DC. My somewhat cynical views on politics probably stem from Marion Barry more than anything else. Of course, years of early exposure to the washington post couldn&#8217;t have helped.<\/p>\n<p>In our random junk on <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2543\">Marion Barry<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}