{"id":3468,"date":"2012-03-16T06:53:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2012-03-16T06:53:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:53:55","slug":"thought-flatulence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3468","title":{"rendered":"Thought flatulence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sentence of the day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/15\/stupid-voters-political-reporting_n_1349779.html\">Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And <em>The New York Times<\/em>&#39; Thomas Friedman has aided this delusion by blundering around in a fog of his own thought-flatulence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/16\/thomas-friedman-new-york-times_n_1097530.html?ref=tw\" target=\"_hplink\">wondering where the &quot;grand bargain&quot; was<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/30\/thomas-friedman-obama-administration_n_1121368.html\" target=\"_hplink\">The &quot;grand bargain&quot; was always available<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/omb\/budget\/fy2012\/assets\/joint_committee_reportfact_sheet.pdf\" target=\"_hplink\">download<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have read no more descriptive phrase of the Brooks-Friedman genre than this.&nbsp; This really should become some kind of meme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentence of the day, Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post: And The New York Times&#39; Thomas Friedman has aided this delusion by blundering around in a fog of his own thought-flatulence, wondering where the &quot;grand bargain&quot; was. (The &quot;grand bargain&quot; was always available via download.) I have read no more descriptive phrase of the Brooks-Friedman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thought flatulence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1334,1333,201],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-jason-linkins","tag-thought-flatulence","tag-tom-friedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}