{"id":2332,"date":"2016-01-11T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2016-01-11T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:41:57","slug":"bowie-gets-all-the-sympathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2016\/01\/bowie-gets-all-the-sympathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowie Gets All The Sympathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Bowue died this morning, and the day has been full of the suck-suck-sucking sound as all the sympathy for all the dead people in the world has been hoovered up by the dead David Bowie.<br \/>\nLogic tells me that a single dead person does not deserve the sympathy that should be shared between half million or so people that have died in the past 24 hours. That is what fame does for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Bowue died this morning, and the day has been full of the suck-suck-sucking sound as all the sympathy for all the dead people in the world has been hoovered up by the dead David Bowie. Logic tells me that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2016\/01\/bowie-gets-all-the-sympathy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-BC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1285,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/03\/why-should-i-have-any-sympathy-for-poor-people-who-do-such-stupid-things\/","url_meta":{"origin":2332,"position":0},"title":"Why Should I Have Any Sympathy For Poor People Who Do Such Stupid Things?","author":"taxicle","date":"March 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In Kenya poor people have just elected a war criminal as president. 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