{"id":4937,"date":"2021-02-12T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2021-02-12T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:48:24","slug":"fun-with-headlines-2-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4937","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Headlines: 2-12-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the “People only ever die of COVID” department<\/strong>
Headline<\/em>: Texas GOP rep Ron Wright, 67, becomes first member of Congress to die from COVID after two-week spell in hospital alongside his wife<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story<\/em>: He died with<\/em> COVID. He also had lung cancer, and was recently hospitalized for a week with pneumonia<\/a>. Maybe COVID did actually kill him, but I’m unconvinced after a local mayor “died of COVID” and stage 4 brain cancer<\/em> but you had to, like, already know the dude had brain cancer because none of the death stories would mention it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the woke department<\/strong>
Headline<\/em>: Student organizations asking UT to terminate professor who used racially charged acronym in class<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story<\/em>: A black female professor of “Africana Studies” wrote the title of a Tupac Shakur song on the board<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the “What an amazing coincidence” department<\/strong>
Headline<\/em>: Mayor Cooper proposes record-breaking $191 million for funding toward education<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reality<\/em>: Cooper raised property taxes by 34% during a pandemic with record unemployment without ever even considering<\/em> cutting back spending. Now that the covid numbers are down and he’s expecting a return to 2019 sales tax revenues, he puts forth the largest spending plan in Nashville’s history,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the “People only ever die of COVID” departmentHeadline: Texas GOP rep Ron Wright, 67, becomes first member of Congress to die from COVID after two-week spell in hospital alongside his wife Story: He died with COVID. He also had lung cancer, and was recently hospitalized for a week with pneumonia. Maybe COVID did actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}