{"id":15608,"date":"2008-11-09T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/11\/kim-jong-shop.html"},"modified":"2008-11-09T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T14:22:32","slug":"kim_jong_shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/kim_jong_shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong &#039;Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The popular &amp; long-running <em>News of the Weird<\/em> eventually has to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsoftheweird.com\/special\/special.html\">retire stories<\/a> (e.g. ill-informed guys playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic pistol) that have repeated themselves out of weirdness.&#160; I&#8217;m starting to get that feeling about shady government attempts to digitally manipulate reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Recently we had the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120363429707884255.html?mod=yhoofront\">Chinese antelope<\/a>, followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/07\/skyrockets_in_f.html\">Iranian missiles<\/a>.  Now, apparently, the North Korean news agency has engaged in &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article5101905.ece\">communist photoshopaganda<\/a>&quot;&#8211;making ailing leader Kim Jong-il appear fit enough to stand with his troops.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>When the Dear Leader <em>does<\/em> kick the can (if he hasn&#8217;t already), maybe the propagandists will engage in a whole &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weekend_at_bernie%27s\">Weekend at Kim&#8217;s<\/a>&quot; series, propping up his remains in all kinds of fun contexts.  (He&#8217;s already got the Elvis specs &amp; a <a href=\"http:\/\/poplicks.com\/images\/kim-jong-il.jpg\">slammin&#8217; physique<\/a>, so the possibilities seem endless.) [Via Jerry Harris &amp; many others] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular &amp; long-running News of the Weird eventually has to retire stories (e.g. ill-informed guys playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic pistol) that have repeated themselves out of weirdness.&#160; I&#8217;m starting to get that feeling about shady government attempts to digitally manipulate reality. &#160; Recently we had the Chinese antelope, followed by Iranian missiles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}