{"id":1131,"date":"2004-05-15T18:57:45","date_gmt":"2004-05-16T01:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2004-05-15T18:57:45","modified_gmt":"2004-05-16T01:57:45","slug":"the-bottom-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/05\/15\/the-bottom-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bottom Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002291\"><\/a>I can&#8217;t find the lyrics to the Negativland song &#8220;Bottom Line&#8221; online.<\/p>\n<p>Which is probably just as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I had the album playing, and I had to turn it off.  I suppose I&#8217;ll stick to anything other than social commentary for the moment.<\/p>\n<p><i>Torture.  That&#8217;s the bottom line these days.<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\n<i>Even teenagers are killing themselves these days.  So the ante has been raised.<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\n<i>How did it get to be here in the United States, the Home of the Free and the Home of the Brave?  I mean, in some Banana Republic.<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Apple Pie.  Joe DiMaggio<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\n<i>But it was all a mirage, wasn&#8217;t it?<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Like a decaying tooth.<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>KBOO is likely playing it sometime in the overnight.  I recall hearing them play it, alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vlyrics.com\/n\/negativland5573\/freedomswaiting227522.html\">Freedom&#8217;s Waiting<\/a> and <i>The National Anthem<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t find the lyrics to the Negativland song &#8220;Bottom Line&#8221; online. Which is probably just as well&#8230; I had the album playing, and I had to turn it off. I suppose I&#8217;ll stick to anything other than social commentary for the moment. Torture. That&#8217;s the bottom line these days. &#8230;. Even teenagers are killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}