{"id":98,"date":"2003-02-20T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2003-02-20T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=98"},"modified":"2003-02-20T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2003-02-20T13:03:07","slug":"bleats_and_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Bleats and Backfences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you only read James Lileks&#8217;s daily online column, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/\">The Bleat<\/a>, you&#8217;re missing out on the equally good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/fence\/\">Backfence<\/a> column he writes for the Minneapolis &#8211; St. Paul <cite>Star-Tribune<\/cite>. The Backfence has been particularly interesting in recent days. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/804\/3658455.html\">Tuesday&#8217;s column<\/a>, Lileks explained what all that duct tape was <i>really<\/i> for. (It&#8217;s at the end of the column, but don&#8217;t scroll down; read the whole thing!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/804\/3662489.html\">Today&#8217;s Backfence<\/a> has an even better punchline, but I won&#8217;t spoil it. Instead, here&#8217;s my favorite bit from Tuesday&#8217;s column: &#8220;War does bring people together. So do corn dogs. Ergo corn dogs = war. Ergo we will all need Security Council approval to attend the next State Fair. I&#8217;ve just proved it logically.&#8221;<br \/>\nIf Dave Barry can win a Pulitzer for distinguished commentary, Lileks ought to have a mantelpiece full of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you only read James Lileks&#8217;s daily online column, The Bleat, you&#8217;re missing out on the equally good Backfence column he writes for the Minneapolis &#8211; St. Paul Star-Tribune. The Backfence has been particularly interesting in recent days. In Tuesday&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=98\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}