{"id":4766,"date":"2011-07-19T06:24:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2011-07-19T06:24:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:24:42","slug":"repost-the-pain-when-will-it-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/19\/repost-the-pain-when-will-it-end\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost ::The Pain &#8211; When Will It End?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was talking about this depressing turn of events last Friday at a somewhat misnamed happy hour with my friend Ellen, who just about slumped forward to the point where her forehead was touching the icy rim of her martini glass, so demoralized was she over the prospect of the end of America\u2019s space program, with all it symbolized\u2014the ebbing of American optimism and enterprise, our supremacy in science and technology, the inexorable decline of the country. \u201cAnd all because we couldn\u2019t get our shit together to tax rich people and quit fighting expensive wars,\u201d she said. Which gave me the idea for this cartoon.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaincomics.com\/weekly110713.htm\">The Pain &#8211; When Will It End?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep thinking about the xkcd strip about the universe littered with civilizations that died out because they didn&#8217;t choose space. So sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking about this depressing turn of events last Friday at a somewhat misnamed happy hour with my friend Ellen, who just about slumped forward to the point where her forehead was touching the icy rim of her martini glass, so demoralized was she over the prospect of the end of America\u2019s space program, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/19\/repost-the-pain-when-will-it-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost ::The Pain &#8211; When Will It End?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}