{"id":638,"date":"2005-11-24T00:56:49","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T05:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=638"},"modified":"2005-11-24T00:56:49","modified_gmt":"2005-11-24T05:56:49","slug":"on-a-putting-things-into-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"On a Putting Things Into Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicboards.com\/psiphiboards\/notstartrek\/view.php?trd=051122191613\">the Dread Pirate Roberts<\/a>, had this to say about the rapper 50 Cent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to commentary in todays newspaper by DeWayne Hickham Pocket\/MTV Books has signed a deal with Curtis Jackson also known as rapper 50 Cent to do a series of books. [SNIP] Like Mr. Hickman says 50 Cent is &#8220;&#8230; a cancer on the soul of the nation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a world where the President of the United States can call for the bombing of al-Jazeera&#8217;s offices in Qatar to silence a hostile press there are greater cancers on the soul of the nation than 50 Cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, the Dread Pirate Roberts, had this to say about the rapper 50 Cent: According to commentary in todays newspaper by DeWayne Hickham Pocket\/MTV Books has signed a deal with Curtis Jackson also known as rapper 50 Cent to do a series of books. [SNIP] Like Mr. Hickman says 50 Cent is &#8220;&#8230; a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=638\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a Putting Things Into Perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[1029,273,4108],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-al-jazeera","tag-george-bush","tag-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}