{"id":1544,"date":"2008-06-23T10:35:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattstooks.com\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2008-06-23T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T19:07:00","slug":"god-dammit-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/?p=1544","title":{"rendered":"God dammit, George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw George Carlin&#8217;s latest HBO special, &#8220;It&#8217;s Bad For Ya,&#8221; I realized George Carlin&#8217;s prime never ended.\u00a0 He was still as brilliant as always, and would remain so until he died &#8211; which was to have taken place no sooner than ten years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Most comics get a couple years in the spotlight before they&#8217;ve completely tapped their talent wells.\u00a0 George probably had his notepad ready as <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080623\/ap_on_en_tv\/obit_george_carlin\">he was waiting for death<\/a> in the hospital yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s one of my biggest influences, but I&#8217;m hesitant to say so now.\u00a0 By doing so, I feel like I&#8217;m pissing on Carlin&#8217;s grave.\u00a0 Imagine the disgust Paul McCartney would feel upon finding out Jessica Simpson claims The Beatles as an influence.\u00a0 Everyone is a hack when compared to George Carlin.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an overused term for anyone who dies, but George Carlin was a legend and a national treasure.\u00a0 God damn that cocksucker for dying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw George Carlin&#8217;s latest HBO special, &#8220;It&#8217;s Bad For Ya,&#8221; I realized George Carlin&#8217;s prime never ended.\u00a0 He was still as brilliant as always, and would remain so until he died &#8211; which was to have taken place no sooner than ten years from now. Most comics get a couple years in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-problems"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pzeu-oU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}