{"id":15921,"date":"2017-05-11T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=15921"},"modified":"2017-05-11T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:18:14","slug":"life-island-times-gong-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-gong-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Gong Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This just in. Marlow lives in the city I used yesterday as the poster child for the charm of Washington as we leave it behind to live on New York Time. Oh, important correction to yesterday&#8217;s screed.: Bill Clinton was the last President to fire a Director of the FBI. President Clinton fired FBI Director William S. Sessions in July of 1993, ending a six-month drama during which the former federal judge refused repeated requests from administration officials to resign. Dick Nixon&#8217;s offense was to fire the Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in 1973. Sorry- fake news is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vic. <\/p>\n<p>Gong Show<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/051117-LIT1.jpg\" alt=\"051117-LIT1\" width=\"273\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15923\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Americans don\u2019t know what political cataclysm is &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\nsomeone getting fired can set them to shrieking<br \/>\nlike monkeys &#8212;<br \/>\nsomeone clearing out his desk after a private jet trip back home<br \/>\na cushy pension, board memberships, a book contract,<br \/>\nand cable talking head contract awaiting . . .<br \/>\n6 AM<br \/>\nwe sit in our cars<br \/>\nwe\u2019re all driving around &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\nwhere are we going?<br \/>\na little excitement has broken into our<br \/>\nartificially flavored lives as the radio drones on about the horror<br \/>\nwe stand next to strangers<br \/>\nchattering nonsense about<br \/>\nour faux fears<br \/>\nrighteous graveyard humor snickers . . .<br \/>\nour country . . . it, the constitution  . . .  oh my, the tax cut  . . .  maybe,<br \/>\nour stock and bank accounts<br \/>\nthis is just another tickler<br \/>\na baby bird tuft of a feather<br \/>\nand the newsies can\u2019t bear it . . .<br \/>\nsuppose a real enemy invaded or bombed the Imperial City<br \/>\nas it and NY were bombed?<br \/>\nnot with nukes or missiles<br \/>\nbut with ordinary gravity bombs<br \/>\nday after day,<br \/>\nevery day<br \/>\nas happened in London<br \/>\nand other cities of the world?<br \/>\nif the rest of the world could truly see Americans today<br \/>\nas we clench our panties into smaller and tighter wads,<br \/>\ntheir laughter would bring them to their knees<br \/>\nand even the ground beneath us would tremble from their guffaws<br \/>\nand chase our minds away to where we do belong<br \/>\nwherever that is,<br \/>\nand who cares where it is<br \/>\nas long as it\u2019s somewhere far away from<br \/>\nthis Gong Show<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2017 From My Isle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This just in. Marlow lives in the city I used yesterday as the poster child for the charm of Washington as we leave it behind to live on New York Time. Oh, important correction to yesterday&#8217;s screed.: Bill Clinton was the last President to fire a Director of the FBI. President Clinton fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15924,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions\/15924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}