{"id":29308,"date":"2020-08-31T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T04:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29308"},"modified":"2020-08-31T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T04:45:45","slug":"paying-for-an-epidemic-of-stupidity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29308","title":{"rendered":"Paying for an epidemic of stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019ve handed control of our lives to a clown car packed with idiots who have wasted billions trying to defeat this virus. They will never admit it was all for nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/inquirer\/coronavirus-were-paying-for-an-epidemic-of-stupidity\/news-story\/b403b6fa3b30879654a80d8e5c7aa6f0\">https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/inquirer\/coronavirus-were-paying-for-an-epidemic-of-stupidity\/news-story\/b403b6fa3b30879654a80d8e5c7aa6f0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"738\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MAD_Mag_Daniel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MAD_Mag_Daniel.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MAD_Mag_Daniel-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve handed control of our lives to a clown car packed with idiots who have wasted billions trying to defeat this virus. They will never admit it was all for nothing. https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/inquirer\/coronavirus-were-paying-for-an-epidemic-of-stupidity\/news-story\/b403b6fa3b30879654a80d8e5c7aa6f0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29310,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29308\/revisions\/29310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}