{"id":101,"date":"2004-04-13T14:05:44","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=101"},"modified":"2004-04-13T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T18:05:44","slug":"blogs-itself-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Blogs itself, really."},"content":{"rendered":"

So this is what happens<\/a> when the National Endowment for the Arts reaches rock bottom.<\/p>\n

I cannot imagine what marijuana creates this sort of idiotic juxtaposition, “NASCAR Ballet centers around 20 ballet and modern dancers (who represent cars) who circle a forty foot horseshoe track that banks around the corner complete with break away railings,” but when they came down from that admittedly amazing high, why did they not stop themselves? It’s funny for you<\/b>, but why make the rest of us suffer your inside joke?<\/p>\n

I’m reminded of The Dude’s landlord from The Big Lebowski<\/i>, only that guy had more artistic integrity, and was likely far more entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So this is what happens when the National Endowment for the Arts reaches rock bottom. I cannot imagine what marijuana creates this sort of idiotic juxtaposition, “NASCAR Ballet centers around 20 ballet and modern dancers (who represent cars) who circle a forty foot horseshoe track that banks around the corner complete with break away railings,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-1D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":181,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=181","url_meta":{"origin":101,"position":0},"title":"Vigilante justice.","date":"9\/8\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Is it punk or is it puritanical? 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