{"id":5129,"date":"2008-12-26T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T20:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2008-12-26T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T20:33:51","slug":"justin-raimondo-bailout-blago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5129","title":{"rendered":"Justin Raimondo: Bailout Blago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The governor was too honest for Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Justin Raimondo<br \/>\nThe American Conservative<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/article\/2009\/jan\/12\/00010\/\">12 January 2009 Issue<\/a><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>The stoning of Rod Blagojevich recalls Shirley Jackson\u2019s \u201cThe Lottery,\u201d a sinister short story about the inhabitants of an otherwise placid village where, periodically, someone\u2019s name is chosen out of a hat for a public stoning. Like much of Jackson\u2019s idiosyncratic fiction, a dark river of fear runs beneath the formal narrative\u2014in this case fear of randomness, of sudden death at the hands of fate. It was, perhaps, Blagojevich\u2019s fate to go down in history as a symbol of political corruption, Chicago\u2019s Boss Tweed and the most infamous of mobster-politicians. Yet one can\u2019t help but think it could have happened to anyone\u2014 to any member of the political class, that is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/article\/2009\/jan\/12\/00010\/\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor was too honest for Washington. By Justin Raimondo The American Conservative 12 January 2009 Issue The stoning of Rod Blagojevich recalls Shirley Jackson\u2019s \u201cThe Lottery,\u201d a sinister short story about the inhabitants of an otherwise placid village where, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5129\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1kJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5135,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}