{"id":113,"date":"2003-05-12T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2003-05-12T10:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2006-08-27T23:30:19","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T23:30:19","slug":"this-is-a-direct-rip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/12\/this-is-a-direct-rip-off\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a direct rip-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a direct rip-off from Noonan&#8217;s blog, but I found it hilarious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaaos.org\/weirdpic\/\">http:\/\/www.kaaos.org\/weirdpic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>be sure to look carefully at this picture&#8230;..  it&#8217;s very compelling.<\/p>\n<p>As for Dylan, that sell-out, he&#8217;ll write anything to make a buck.  Ok, I&#8217;m not serious, but the book did quote him directly telling Baez that he just wrote that stuff to become popular.  There was some comment he made about a white kid telling people what was wrong with the world, and he thought it was hypocritical.  Of course I think they were breaking up at the time, maybe he made it up.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s hard to look at this era of his career and take it seriously when the book ended before he wrote The Hurricane, for instance.  I guess the author didn&#8217;t want to address that to closely since it probably didn&#8217;t fit with his theory.<\/p>\n<p>by the way, thanks for the book Gibson.  Want to borrow it now?<\/p>\n<p>And the sub-basement is treating me just fine, thank you.  My skin has a rugged green hue, bathed in healthful fluorescent light.  It&#8217;s doing me a world of good down here.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a direct rip-off from Noonan&#8217;s blog, but I found it hilarious. http:\/\/www.kaaos.org\/weirdpic\/ be sure to look carefully at this picture&#8230;.. it&#8217;s very compelling. As for Dylan, that sell-out, he&#8217;ll write anything to make a buck. Ok, I&#8217;m not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/12\/this-is-a-direct-rip-off\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-1P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}