{"id":284,"date":"2008-07-02T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/?p=284"},"modified":"2008-07-02T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T12:49:17","slug":"the-onions-obligatory-green-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/humor\/the-onions-obligatory-green-issue","title":{"rendered":"The Onion&#8217;s &#8220;obligatory&#8221; green issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Onion\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/theonion.com\">The Onion<\/a> has one more brilliant issue out that is filled with gems. Here is a selection of articles from this &#8220;obligatory&#8221; green issue that I liked:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/31760\">World Covers Ears, Chants Loudly As EPA Releases Ozone-Depletion Statistics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/450_000_unsold_earth_day_issues_of\">450,000 Unsold Earth Day Issues Of Time Trucked To Landfill<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/29287\">Small, Dedicated Group Of Concerned Citizens Fails To Change World<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/report_98_percent_of_u_s_commuters\">Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this one is not really about the environment, but&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/middle_east_conflict_intensifies\">Middle East Conflict Intensifies As Blah Blah Blah, Etc. Etc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The issue in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/index\/3734\">the Onion reported on the 9\/11 terrorist attacks in the US<\/a> remains one of my favorites. The Onion did a much better job of capturing things than the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>And, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0609804618\/witgivthemova-20\">Our Dumb Century<\/a> is a masterpiece that is a must read for anyone intererested in a cynical, satirical, and very funny look at the events of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"20th century\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/20th_century\">20th Century<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/86853c47-fdc0-4d7c-b914-7b860eddfe27\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_c.png?x-id=86853c47-fdc0-4d7c-b914-7b860eddfe27\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion has one more brilliant issue out that is filled with gems. Here is a selection of articles from this &#8220;obligatory&#8221; green issue that I liked: World Covers Ears, Chants Loudly As EPA Releases Ozone-Depletion Statistics 450,000 Unsold Earth Day Issues Of Time Trucked To Landfill Small, Dedicated Group Of Concerned Citizens Fails To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/humor\/the-onions-obligatory-green-issue\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Onion&#8217;s &#8220;obligatory&#8221; green issue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}