{"id":898,"date":"2008-07-26T12:09:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=898"},"modified":"2008-07-26T12:09:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T18:09:28","slug":"when-sporks-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"When Sporks Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adventures in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2008\/07\/feds_to_katrinians_go_spork_yo.php\">government accounting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No, the obvious question is actually, &#8220;The government thought they were sending Katrinians THIRTY SIX MILLION dollars&#8217; worth of SPORKS? And no one saw this as odd?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey there, friend. We&#8217;re sorry your house blew away and\/or flooded, not necessarily in that order; here, have some sporks. No, really, take as many as you want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No one found it odd that 42% of Katrina aid had apparently been spent on sporks? This goes beyond failure of oversight. Someone failed to oversee, undersee, or see anything outside the inside of their own ass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adventures in government accounting: No, the obvious question is actually, &#8220;The government thought they were sending Katrinians THIRTY SIX MILLION dollars&#8217; worth of SPORKS? And no one saw this as odd?&#8221; &#8220;Hey there, friend. We&#8217;re sorry your house blew away and\/or flooded, not necessarily in that order; here, have some sporks. No, really, take as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Sporks Attack<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-eu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}