{"id":619,"date":"2007-09-27T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=619"},"modified":"2015-07-22T13:45:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T17:45:54","slug":"china-executes-lead-contaminated-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/09\/27\/china-executes-lead-contaminated-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"China Executes Lead-Contaminated Toys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes The Onion is funny, but, when the writing committee combines its historical perspective and incisive sarcasm, as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/chinese_authorities_execute_10\">this article,<\/a> their satire can be almost sublime. I especially like the ways in which the conventions of genocide and execution have been adapted for toys, with the Barbies being &#8220;separated from their Kens&#8221; and &#8220;leaned against the wall&#8221; for the firing squad [because they can&#8217;t stand up by themselves]. The best detail, however, is the nonchalant, almost bured mention of civilian deaths. Genius!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes The Onion is funny, but, when the writing committee combines its historical perspective and incisive sarcasm, as in this article, their satire can be almost sublime. I especially like the ways in which the conventions of genocide and execution have been adapted for toys, with the Barbies being &#8220;separated from their Kens&#8221; and &#8220;leaned&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/09\/27\/china-executes-lead-contaminated-toys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China Executes Lead-Contaminated Toys!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[722,729],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dolls-genl","tag-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5745,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}