{"id":1928,"date":"2009-12-18T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2009-12-18T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:55:10","slug":"i-think-the-engine-is-on-the-beach-the-metaphor-might-have-gotten-away-from-me-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2009\/12\/18\/i-think-the-engine-is-on-the-beach-the-metaphor-might-have-gotten-away-from-me-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I think the engine is on the beach.  The metaphor might have gotten away from me here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It really was pretty disorienting last year, having the television tell me that <a href=\"\/nfd\/2008\/11\/05\/emblematism\/\">the thing I wanted<\/a> from politics was actually happening.  I didn&#8217;t know how to handle it.  The guiding keel of my cynicism ran up short on a beach of unexpected joy.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t really a beach, of course:  it was a sandbar.  Now, as we watch the you-know-what bill being painstakingly converted from a mild rebuke for the insurance industry into a roaring engine of fellatio, it&#8217;s almost soothing.  Yes, yes.  This is what it&#8217;s supposed to be like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really was pretty disorienting last year, having the television tell me that the thing I wanted from politics was actually happening. I didn&#8217;t know how to handle it. The guiding keel of my cynicism ran up short on a beach of unexpected joy. It wasn&#8217;t really a beach, of course: it was a sandbar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitterness","category-injustice","category-naivete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}