{"id":33473,"date":"2018-08-24T06:38:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33473"},"modified":"2018-08-24T06:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T13:38:17","slug":"friday-fun-rationing-our-schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/friday-fun-rationing-our-schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Rationing Our Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will have to be a short one for two reasons:<\/p>\n<p>[1] I&#8217;m concerned that some of us (myself included) our on the verge of overdosing from <em>Schadenfreude<\/em> with all the good news FINALLY coming out.<\/p>\n<p>[2] I have a doctor&#8217;s appointment in less than two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t help but feel I&#8217;d be remiss if I did not memorialize the good news of the week in some manner, so I think a sampling of the headlines from major newspapers across the country would be a good way:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Trump_Headlines_Cohen-Manafort-GUILTY.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Trump_Headlines_Cohen-Manafort-GUILTY.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"630\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what was <em>Fox news (sic)<\/em> covering instead of these major stories?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN: Cohen implicates Trump<br \/>MNBC: Cohen implicates Trump <br \/>Fox News: Is a giraffe a type of tall horse?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kumailn\/status\/1032008145764151296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And all I&#8217;ve got to say is\u00a0<em>FINALLY<\/em> somebody&#8217;s covering the giraffe story! And it\u2019s about damn time, too!<\/p>\n<p>And just a quickie note about <strong>David Pecker<\/strong>, publisher of the <em><strong>National Enquirer<\/strong><\/em>, flipping and spilling lots of sexual secrets on <em><strong>Twitler<\/strong><\/em> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Trump_Loses-Pecker_Headline.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Trump_Loses-Pecker_Headline.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Trump_Loses-Pecker_Headline.png 427w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Trump_Loses-Pecker_Headline-150x68.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Trump_Loses-Pecker_Headline-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, some people say it wasn&#8217;t <em>that<\/em> big of a loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will have to be a short one for two reasons: [1] I&#8217;m concerned that some of us (myself included) our on the verge of overdosing from Schadenfreude with all the good news FINALLY coming out. [2] I have a doctor&#8217;s appointment in less than two hours. Can&#8217;t help but feel I&#8217;d be remiss if <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/friday-fun-rationing-our-schadenfreude\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}