{"id":563,"date":"2007-06-21T08:28:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-06-21T22:46:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T05:46:17","slug":"irony-supplement-part-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Irony Supplement, Part 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahalo Nui Loa to my coworker Steve for lending me his copy of the April edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/\">US News &#038; World Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/irony14.jpg\" alt=\"Irony Supplement, Part 14\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like Steve, I just love the happy congruence of themes between the front cover and the back. Exceptionally ironic is the fact that the back cover addresses one of America&#8217;s other major addictions, possibly even more pernicious than stimulants: credit. Of course, the ad on the back is <em>peddling<\/em> the addiction in question rather than decrying it. Perhaps the editors at USN&#038;WR felt that this added balance to the outer shell of the magazine as a whole.  \ud83d\ude1b <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahalo Nui Loa to my coworker Steve for lending me his copy of the April edition of US News &#038; World Report: Like Steve, I just love the happy congruence of themes between the front cover and the back. Exceptionally ironic is the fact that the back cover addresses one of America&#8217;s other major addictions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irony-supplement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}