{"id":221,"date":"2002-11-21T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=221"},"modified":"2002-11-21T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-21T12:03:00","slug":"weird-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-11\/221-weird-world","title":{"rendered":"Weird World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So while I&#8217;m trying to decide what to do for lunch today, I might as well make a commentary on something in today&#8217;s newspaper:<\/p>\n<p><font COLOR=\"000088\"><b>Bush, bin Laden on <i>Time<\/i> list<\/b><br \/>\nUNITED STATES: President George W. Bush, the world&#8217;s most wanted man Osama bin Laden, rapper Eminem and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein are all on the &#8220;short list&#8221; for <i>Time<\/i> Magazine&#8217;s 2002 Person of the year.<!--more Time Magazine revealed yesterday its list...--><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Time<\/i> Magazine revealed yesterday its list for the coveted title, the first time in the honour&#8217;s 75-year history that the weekly news magazine has opened a window on the nominating process for the &#8220;person who most affected the news or our lives, for good or ill, this year.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The list also includes (in no order): Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush&#8217;s national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell, FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, Palestinian suicide bomers, home decorating doyenne Martha Stewart, corporate crooks, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, and Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>A couple of thoughts come to mind:<br \/>\n1. I never thought I would be &#8220;rooting&#8221; for Eminem.<br \/>\n2. Which one, if any, of these people &#8220;affected the news or our lives, for good&#8221;?<br \/>\n3. What were the people at <i>Time<\/i> Magazine smoking when they put this list together, and where can I get some?<br \/>\n4. Most importantly, <b>What am I going to have for lunch today?!?!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while I&#8217;m trying to decide what to do for lunch today, I might as well make a commentary on something in today&#8217;s newspaper: Bush, bin Laden on Time list UNITED STATES: President George W. Bush, the world&#8217;s most wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-11\/221-weird-world\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}