{"id":99,"date":"2005-07-12T19:19:32","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T02:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2005-07-12T19:19:32","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T02:19:32","slug":"136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Agony of the Rickled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The temperatures in Vegas have risen into the 110s.<\/p>\n<p>When the weather gets this hot, my thoughts invariably turn to the corporatization of the American consciousness and the imminent collapse of our society.<\/p>\n<p>Today, those thoughts took a new shape. I began to visualize American culture as a three-way intersection &#8212; the point where the desperate need to be cool meets the desperate need to be right and the insatiable drive to acquire.<\/p>\n<p>In the light of the pitiless sun, we look like a nation of insult comics.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is going to be even hotter, so the subject will be &#8220;dark&#8221; comic books and risibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temperatures in Vegas have risen into the 110s. When the weather gets this hot, my thoughts invariably turn to the corporatization of the American consciousness and the imminent collapse of our society. Today, those thoughts took a new shape. I began to visualize American culture as a three-way intersection &#8212; the point where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}