{"id":3244,"date":"2010-01-22T00:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T08:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2010-01-22T00:16:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T08:16:20","slug":"d_mnd-yanquis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"D_mn'd Yanquis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of this &#39;blog might recall <a href=\"?p=192\"><em>the Decimator<\/em><\/a>.  Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2010\/01\/21\/chavez_us_weapon_test_caused_haiti_earthquake.html\">according to Hugo Ch&aacute;vez, the United States has one<\/a>.<\/p> <p>I'm just hoping that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands, and get <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/nyc_rocketmen.png\">directed at the Amsterdam Fault<\/a>.  Meanwhile, maybe I can become one of the Rocket Men.  At my age, hopes of becoming a super-hero have dimmed, but I at least <em>look<\/em> younger than Jeff King.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Readers of this &#39;blog might recall the Decimator. Well, according to Hugo Ch&aacute;vez, the United States has one. I'm just hoping that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands, and get directed at the Amsterdam Fault. Meanwhile, maybe I can become one of the Rocket Men. At my age, hopes of becoming a super-hero have [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,104,5,676,4],"tags":[334,756,291,757],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-personal","category-physical-science","category-public","tag-everyday-absurdity","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-superheroes","tag-yank-bashing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}