{"id":50,"date":"2005-06-23T03:20:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T11:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/ever-get-the-feeling-youve-been-cheated\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T03:20:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T11:20:23","slug":"ever-get-the-feeling-youve-been-cheated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/ever-get-the-feeling-youve-been-cheated\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever get the feeling you&#8217;ve been cheated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to be optimistic when every water-supplied appliance fails. It&#8217;s even harder when you keep hearing something new everyday that makes you wonder what alternate reality you&#8217;ve inadvertantly stumbled into. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/06\/22\/rottencom_our_gaping.html\">Ridiculous laws go into effect<\/a>. Funding is cut for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\">worthwhile media<\/a> while huge steaming piles of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">shitmedia<\/a> proliferate. The FBI is <a href=\"http:\/\/sf.indymedia.org\/news\/2005\/06\/1715244_comment.php\">harassing people<\/a> and getting away with it. <\/p>\n<p>I was too young during the Reagan years to fully grasp all that was going on. I had glimpses of it through the eyes of people like Berke Breathed and Jello Biafra. I get the feeling now that it&#8217;s infinitely worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to be optimistic when every water-supplied appliance fails. It&#8217;s even harder when you keep hearing something new everyday that makes you wonder what alternate reality you&#8217;ve inadvertantly stumbled into. Ridiculous laws go into effect. Funding is cut for worthwhile media while huge steaming piles of shitmedia proliferate. The FBI is harassing people and <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/ever-get-the-feeling-youve-been-cheated\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}