{"id":25,"date":"2003-02-26T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2003-02-26T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2006-08-28T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T12:39:20","slug":"why-is-the-onion-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/26\/why-is-the-onion-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is The Onion so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is The Onion so darn good?  I mean really.  What do these people do but sit around all day and think of the funniest damn things.<\/p>\n<p>How do they make any money?  I mean the site has advertising, but not that much.  It&#8217;s a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out, really.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\">The Onion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stole this little gem from the archives:<br \/>\n**********************<br \/>\n<strong>Glandular Problem Causes Man To Eat Fifth Helping<\/strong><br \/>\nFREDERICKSBURG, MD-Born with a rare, debilitating glandular disorder, 450-pound Fredericksburg resident Gordon Hotchkiss, 41, helped himself to a fifth serving of mashed potatoes Sunday. &#8220;Why, oh, why, was I chosen by God to suffer from this horrible blaaarghmummm?&#8221; moaned the stricken Hotchkiss, helplessly shoveling fistfuls of buttery mashed potatoes into his mouth. &#8220;What have I done to deserve this awful glomphummm?&#8221; Hotchkiss&#8217; condition, known within medical circles as &#8220;bigfatfuckitis,&#8221; also prevents him from using the stairs instead of the elevator to get to his second-floor apartment.<br \/>\n**********************<\/p>\n<p>Like, that is so gold.  My apologies for the profanity.<\/p>\n<p>Also, on the absolutely bizarre front, Neighbour Jim and Roomate Darcy shoveled off the rink after Saturday&#8217;s 40cm of snow fell.  By hand.  What the hell were they thinking?  I mean really.  It&#8217;s the end of February, how many skating days are we going to have left?  Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to get off my butt and get out there and help.  I&#8217;m gonna kill those guys.<\/p>\n<p>Well, gotta run.<br \/>\nGiddyap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is The Onion so darn good? I mean really. What do these people do but sit around all day and think of the funniest damn things. How do they make any money? I mean the site has advertising, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/26\/why-is-the-onion-so\/\">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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}