{"id":327,"date":"2009-09-28T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T08:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2009-09-28T18:19:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T08:19:48","slug":"thermonuclear-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2009\/09\/thermonuclear-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermonuclear Explosion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great.  Geelong won the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/\">AFL<\/a> Grand Final on the weekend.  Kudos.  Congratulations, and well done.  As an Essendon supporter &#8211; and having seen my team win four times in my lifetime &#8211; I know the joy the fans are feeling right now.  Celebrate, absolutely.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>However, the &#8220;media&#8221; in this town just never seem to have any perspective &#8211; look at the current front page of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geelongadvertiser.com.au\">Geelong Advertiser<\/a> website.  Every story in the &#8220;news&#8221; section relates to the football club and their win in some way.  The only exception is a story about cyclist Cadel Evans, but then again, you need to realise he&#8217;s from the Geelong area, so managed to squeeze in.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, there could be a massive thermonuclear detonation in the middle of this town, and it wouldn&#8217;t make the front page.  <\/p>\n<p>Please, Geelong fans, enjoy it for a couple of weeks, then get on with life &#8211; and take those bloody flags off your cars.  You look like tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great. Geelong won the AFL Grand Final on the weekend. Kudos. Congratulations, and well done. As an Essendon supporter &#8211; and having seen my team win four times in my lifetime &#8211; I know the joy the fans are feeling right now. Celebrate, absolutely. However, the &#8220;media&#8221; in this town just never seem to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}