{"id":2058,"date":"2002-03-19T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2002-03-19T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2002-03-19T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2002-03-19T16:19:41","slug":"down_de_tubes_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/19\/down_de_tubes_m.html","title":{"rendered":"Down de tubes, mon!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shock News of the Month: Miss Cleo isn’t from Jamaica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shock News of the Month: Miss Cleo isn’t from Jamaica….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1803,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/27\/the_medium_stri.html","url_meta":{"origin":2058,"position":0},"title":"The Medium Strikes Back!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 27-Apr-02 8:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Miss Cleo's lawyer has taken the offensive, calling Florida's prosecution of her a modern-day witch trial. The hilarity includes ... The birth certificate, made public by the Attorney General\u2019s Office...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2205,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/15\/the_final_table.html","url_meta":{"origin":2058,"position":1},"title":"The final tableau","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Feb-02 8:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the end of the line for Miss Cleo, the Caribbean-sounding psychic who's a staple of late night television. FTC suits against the parent companies of various Miss Cleo fronts...","rel":"","context":"In "Fourth Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1131,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/14\/thing_are_getti.html","url_meta":{"origin":2058,"position":2},"title":"Thing are gettin’ pretty hairy here, mon!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 14-Oct-01 8:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Saw the most bizarre Miss Cleo commercial this a.m. She was nattering on about how, over the centuries, people have been persecuted for holding \"different beliefs.\" She assured her viewers...","rel":"","context":"In "Media & Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Media & Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2142,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/03\/panda_takes_dow.html","url_meta":{"origin":2058,"position":3},"title":"Panda takes down Hulk Hogan","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 3-Mar-02 7:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A zillion kids and and adults know \"WWF\" as the initials of the World Wrestling Foundation, the steroid opera that makes Miss Cleo look like a model of integrity. And...","rel":"","context":"In "Fourth Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133005,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/sticker-shock-and-buyers-remorse-over-trump-and-health-insurance.html","url_meta":{"origin":2058,"position":4},"title":"Sticker shock and buyer's remorse over Trump and Health Insurance","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Mar-17 11:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"I have to feel at least a little bit sorry for Martha Brawley, Monroe, North Carolina. She actually voted, at age 55, for President for the first time -- and voted for Donald Trump -- largely because he promised to fix the health insurance system for her:'\"I'm 55. This is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/when-good-employment-news-is-bad-for-some-folk.html","url_meta":{"origin":2058,"position":5},"title":"When good employment news is bad (for some folk)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Nov-15 4:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The unbearable sadness of numbers that are not what Fox News hoped for -- it burns ...I mean, not to be partisan or anything but this is actually pretty funny to watch. \"\u200bThat's right, Steve, only 271,000 new jobs were added last month. That is up from September as well.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}