{"id":9685,"date":"2010-03-03T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9685"},"modified":"2010-03-03T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:58:52","slug":"well-crud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9685","title":{"rendered":"Well, Crud."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who&#8217;ve been meandering around the interweb for a while will be familiar with the blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/jonswift.blogspot.com\/\">Jon Swift<\/a>, the mock-conservative who declared that he received his news through unbiased sources like Rush Limbaugh, and who <a href=\"http:\/\/jonswift.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/lets-make-poverty-less-enticing.html\">said of the economic downturn<\/a>, &#8220;At a time when Wall Street executives are being forced to give up their private planes, limousines, bathroom renovations and multimillion dollar bonuses, the idea that a homeless man has been allowed to hold on to his cellphone while others are making sacrifices is more than we can take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The writer behind Swift was Al Weisel. And sadly, <a href=\"http:\/\/tomwatson.typepad.com\/tom_watson\/2010\/03\/a-death-in-the-blogging-family.html\">Al Weisel has died<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al was on his way to his father&#8217;s funeral in VA when he suffered 2 aortic aneurysms, a leaky aortic valve and an aortic artery dissection from his heart to his pelvis. He had 3 major surgeries within 24 hours and sometime during those surgeries also suffered a severe stroke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know Al personally, only through his writing. But his writing was superlative, the sort of satire his cognomen&#8217;s namesake would have heartily approved. My heart and thoughts are with the Weisel family, which is having to face far too much loss in too short a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who&#8217;ve been meandering around the interweb for a while will be familiar with the blogger Jon Swift, the mock-conservative who declared that he received his news through unbiased sources like Rush Limbaugh, and who said of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}