{"id":1900,"date":"2009-10-27T18:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T22:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2020-05-03T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T23:54:28","slug":"i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/27\/i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"I read the news today, oh boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Man, the hits came fast and hard as I read the news today. For whatever reason, I seem to be taking it personally today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/28\/dining\/28keller.html\">The last meal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The chef, who has built his professional life on a devotion to precision, analysis and control that borders on the obsessive, came to understand in new ways that life is messy, friends and colleagues say.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/27\/opinion\/27herbert.html\">Changing the world<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The nation\u2019s political leaders and their corporate puppet masters have fouled this nation up to a fare-thee-well. We will not be pulled from the morass without a big effort from an active citizenry, and that means a citizenry fired with a sense of mission and the belief that their actions, in concert with others, can make a profound difference.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/27\/us\/27runaways.html\">For runaways, sex buys survival<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cGive me some time,\u201d Mr. Garrabrant pleaded as he handed her a card and asked her to keep it handy. With no time left, he released Roxanne back to the local police, who took her to the youth shelter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four hours later, she disappeared. Seventeen days after that, according to the F.B.I, she was found stabbed to death by the pimp she had so adamantly denied existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one of her pockets she had Mr. Garrabrant\u2019s card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cTwo days, that\u2019s all I needed to get her to stay away from her pimp and I think things would\u2019ve ended up differently,\u201d said Mr. Garrabrant, shaking his head in frustration. \u201cI still don\u2019t understand how these guys loop these girls in so far.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, the hits came fast and hard as I read the news today. For whatever reason, I seem to be taking it personally today: * The last meal The chef, who has built his professional life on a devotion to precision, analysis and control that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}