{"id":1163,"date":"2006-08-21T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T01:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2015-01-09T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:53:43","slug":"1163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"Hating on pundits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(this is one of those posts wherein i put something here for my own archival purposes... )<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/hocb.net\/2006\/08\/21\/the-commentariat-as-foghorn-leghorn\/#comment-3942\">lighthearted little post<\/a> about the way the high-dollar (and two-bit) political pundits are working hard to avoid owning up to the fact that they were wrong when they pushed for the Iraq war, Liberal Japonicus, at <a href=\"http:\/\/hocb.net\">Taking it Outside<\/a> (the site formerly known as Hating On Charles Bird), asks:<\/p>\n<ul>...what is the right way to take these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/2006\/08\/post_1185.html#005905\">Pollackian<\/a> calls of `it's all history now, so let's not let this get in the way of me continuing to pundit' Whatever happened to hairshirts?<\/ul>\n<p>(my link)<\/p>\n<p>Well, I could only respond in verse:<\/p>\n<ul>\napologies embarass;<br \/>\nhairshirts, how they itch!<br \/>\nflagellation stings him;<br \/>\npenance? for Catholics;<br \/>\nconfession's for the guilty;<br \/>\npardon's not his to give;<br \/>\nmea culpa hints at weakness;<br \/>\npunishment? none for him.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even though it's posted in the comment sections of two other blogs already, I'll save it here for my own convenience. <\/p>\n<p>h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/poetry.poetryx.com\/poems\/4931\/\">Dorothy Parker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(this is one of those posts wherein i put something here for my own archival purposes... ) In a lighthearted little post about the way the high-dollar (and two-bit) political pundits are working hard to avoid owning up to the fact that they were wrong when they pushed for the Iraq war, Liberal Japonicus, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21618,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/21618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}