{"id":16240,"date":"2020-10-07T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16240"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:11:53","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-7-the-jokes-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16240","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 7 &#8211; The joke&#8217;s on me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/img\/201004\/1007.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"787\" title=\"It's not so much Jack Kirby was a prophet as that he knew human nature all too well.\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure Two:<\/strong> And this pattern is always the same?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure One:<\/strong> With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find&#8230;and it&#8217;s<br \/>\nthemselves. And all we need do is sit back&#8230;and watch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure Two:<\/strong> Then I take it this place&#8230;this Maple Street&#8230;is not unique.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure One:<\/strong> [Shaking his head.] By no means. Their world is full of Maple Streets. And we&#8217;ll<br \/>\ngo from one to the other and let them destroy themselves. One to the other&#8230;one<br \/>\nto the other&#8230;one to the other&#8211; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rod Serling, &#8220;The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street&#8221; (1960)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended listening:<\/strong> Tot Rocket &#038; The Twins &#8211; Employment Line (from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Tot-Rocket-And-The-Twins-Eviction\/release\/3781101\">a 1980 EP<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5E2kcFeQPc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>You know how it works now<br \/>\nBut you don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not the victim of it all<br \/>\nSo you think it&#8217;s fair<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Real-life horror storytelling at its finest. Also the closest analog to The Clash that America ever produced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure Two: And this pattern is always the same? Figure One: With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find&#8230;and it&#8217;s themselves. And all we need do is sit back&#8230;and watch. Figure Two: Then I take it this place&#8230;this Maple Street&#8230;is not unique. Figure One: [Shaking his head.] By no means. Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9,668,61,15],"tags":[409,1149],"class_list":["post-16240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-issues","category-culture","category-halloween-countdown","category-history","category-music","tag-there-is-more-to-freedom-than-being-a-selfish-prick","tag-what-the-fuck-happened-to-this-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16241,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions\/16241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}