{"id":248,"date":"2007-01-11T07:53:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T11:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2007-01-11T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T11:54:08","slug":"internet-needs-less-saddam-and-britney-more-ufos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/11\/internet-needs-less-saddam-and-britney-more-ufos\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet needs less Saddam and Britney, more UFOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"byline\" href=\"mailto:bconstable@dailyherald.com\">By Burt Constable<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"bylineattribution\">Daily Herald Editorial Columnist<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"News\">Saddam Hussein can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t drop dead without a cell phone camera recording his demise and a post-mortem sequel for distribution on the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"News\">Britney Spears can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t totter through one night as a trollop without photographic evidence popping up the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"News\">YouTube.com has video of a costumed Tigger appearing to punch a teen in the face at Walt Disney World.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"News\">Little kids can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t drink from hoses, fat people can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t sit in spindly chairs, old ladies can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t get off poorly docked boats, and dads holding pinatas can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t get hit in the crotch without cameras capturing the hilarity for TV\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cAmerica\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Funniest Home Videos.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"News\">You can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t even go to work without a camera recording you filling up with gas, buying coffee, running a yellow light, zipping through a toll booth or entering your office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"News\">But search the Internet for a clip of the UFO reported hovering Nov. 7 above O\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2Hare International Airport, and you come up empty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/opinion\/constable.asp?id=268393\">[[MORE]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Burt Constable Daily Herald Editorial Columnist Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 Saddam Hussein can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t drop dead without a cell phone camera recording his demise and a post-mortem sequel for distribution on the Internet. Britney Spears can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t totter through one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/11\/internet-needs-less-saddam-and-britney-more-ufos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}