{"id":4360,"date":"2003-09-17T15:19:23","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T22:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2003-09-17T15:19:23","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T22:19:23","slug":"sing_a_song_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/17\/sing_a_song_go.html","title":{"rendered":"Sing a song, go to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it&#8217;s full of enough hyperbole that, were it a blog entry on a serious site, folks would be regretfully Fisking it left and right.  But <a title=\"The New York Times on the Web\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2003\/09\/16\/arts\/20030916_POPLIFE_IMAGE.html\">as a cartoon<\/a>, it&#8217;s pretty damned funny.<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"The New York Times on the Web\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2003\/09\/16\/arts\/20030916_POPLIFE_IMAGE.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Just a Fair Use excerpt!  Honest! 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