{"id":13705,"date":"2005-01-22T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/22\/the-50-most-loathsome-people-in-america-2004\/"},"modified":"2005-01-22T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T15:52:00","slug":"the-50-most-loathsome-people-in-america-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/22\/the-50-most-loathsome-people-in-america-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Beast<\/i> lists its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalobeast.com\/66\/50mostLoathsome2004.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;50 Most Loathsome People in America&rdquo; for 2004<\/a>.  The list includes each person&rsquo;s crime, a &ldquo;smoking gun,&rdquo; and a suitable punishment.  For example, here&rsquo;s an excerpt from one of my favorite entries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>23. Jerry Bruckheimer<\/p>\n<p>Crimes: &hellip; Master of the incoherent action sequence, full of unnecessary cuts and jittery close-ups. His rapidly multiplying CBS cop show empire is replete with ridiculously beautiful cops and scientists (and murderers and victims and witnesses) and impossibly stylish interiors&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Smoking Gun: Who brings a fucking Gatling gun to an asteroid?<\/p>\n<p>Punishment: Made into shoes for Martin Scorsese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think a couple of them are a bit harsh, but for the most part this is pretty damn funny&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110631133036849813?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beast lists its &ldquo;50 Most Loathsome People in America&rdquo; for 2004. The list includes each person&rsquo;s crime, a &ldquo;smoking gun,&rdquo; and a suitable punishment. For example, here&rsquo;s an excerpt from one of my favorite entries: 23. Jerry Bruckheimer Crimes: &hellip; Master of the incoherent action sequence, full of unnecessary cuts and jittery close-ups. His &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/22\/the-50-most-loathsome-people-in-america-2004\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2004&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}