{"id":529,"date":"2007-11-27T19:58:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T00:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2007-11-27T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T00:58:35","slug":"weapons-of-mass-distraction-courant-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Weapons of mass distraction, Courant edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was so disappointed this morning as I perused the front page of the Courant. Not a single story about a disabled person struggling mightily against their particular disability. But I perked up soon enough, because there in the place where I expected my daily dose of pathos was a vitally important story about three bozos who had their chests tattooed to honor their dead mother. Now that&#8217;s a story that deserves more than one half the space on the front page. If the Courant hadn&#8217;t made the wise editorial decision to print that story, they might have had to print&#8230; you know, ..news. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so disappointed this morning as I perused the front page of the Courant. Not a single story about a disabled person struggling mightily against their particular disability. But I perked up soon enough, because there in the place where I expected my daily dose of pathos was a vitally important story about three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}