{"id":37,"date":"2008-08-10T19:14:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-08-17T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T23:13:27","slug":"2008-snarky-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"2008 Snarky Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all of you who have been faithful readers of this blog since its debut, you will undoubtedly remember my annual &#8220;Snarky Award&#8221;.  This highly coveted acknowledgment of a writer&#8217;s skill in the use of wit, sarcasm, and current events is once again due for presentation.  Just yesterday, I found this year&#8217;s hands-down winner from a blog called, <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/who-writes-this-stuff.html\">&#8220;Books. Bikes. Broomsticks.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Okay, so, Russian tanks have rolled into Georgia; Russki fighter bombers are swooping around, bombing the crap out of stuff. What does our intrepid journalist write?<\/p>\n<p>News reports documented fierce clashes between Georgian and Russian forces &#8212; engagements that caused deaths, property damage, and population displacement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No! Really?!? Not property damage! Quick! Call State Farm! I swear, what are they teaching at journalism school these days? <\/p>\n<p>This clown could have muffed D-Day:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Allied and German forces clashed along the beaches of Normandy today, snarling traffic, damaging vacation cottages, and killing some people. Also, a woman reported having her hair mussed by a 14&#8243; shell from the USS Texas.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a military invasion, for chrissakes, not a tornado in a traffic jam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of you who have been faithful readers of this blog since its debut, you will undoubtedly remember my annual &#8220;Snarky Award&#8221;. This highly coveted acknowledgment of a writer&#8217;s skill in the use of wit, sarcasm, and current events &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=37\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}