{"id":5172,"date":"2013-10-05T18:16:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T22:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2018-08-03T03:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T07:04:46","slug":"saturday-october-5-2013-bill-maher-at-his-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5172","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, October 5, 2013 \u2014 California Dreaming.\u2026. It\u2019s&nbsp;Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mayer.kim_.01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mayer.kim_.01.jpg\" alt=\"mayer.kim.01\" width=\"305\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mayer.kim_.01.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mayer.kim_.01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\"><\/a>For sev\u00ader\u00adal gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions, the State of Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia has been the barom\u00ade\u00adter of social trends in the Unit\u00aded States. It was the state Amer\u00adi\u00adcans moved to because they were young, gay, cre\u00adative, or just because they were sick and tired of work\u00ading in coal mines or being screamed at by bible-thump\u00ading ass\u00adholes.&nbsp;If you have been sink\u00ading into acute depres\u00adsion think\u00ading of the antics of the Repub\u00adli\u00adcom\u00admies and their Tea Par\u00adty zom\u00adbies,&nbsp;and oth\u00ader signs of senil\u00adi\u00adty in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan cul\u00adture, then this should refresh your faith in the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan peo\u00adple:&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bill-Maher-California-is-leading.avi\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Bill Maher- Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia is leading<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For sev\u00ader\u00adal gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions, the State of Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia has been the barom\u00ade\u00adter of social trends in the Unit\u00aded States. It was the state Amer\u00adi\u00adcans moved to because they were young, gay, cre\u00adative, or just because they were sick and tired&nbsp;of&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5172\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-an-blog-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}