{"id":840,"date":"2017-08-08T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=840"},"modified":"2017-08-08T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:03:10","slug":"the-hobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"The Hobo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheHobo-96.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-841\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheHobo-96-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheHobo-96-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheHobo-96-768x1106.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheHobo-96-711x1024.jpg 711w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TheHobo-96.jpg 1460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/>\u00a0<\/a>Book Excerpt<\/p>\n<p><strong>The HOBO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0poor,\u00a0pathetic fellow has fallen completely out of favor with the public since the death of the American dream.\u00a0 The hobo, once a celebrated icon of pop culture, is now despised by people taking heavy losses in the corporate class war and the ever widening income gap.\u00a0 Too many people, who have fallen short of their parent&#8217;s success and have no hope for their own children, already resemble hobos&#8230;and don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re funny any more.\u00a0 These days it is illegal for them to appear in public in many American cities.<\/p>\n<p>***<em>Yes, this is the next in a series of pages that were eliminated from the &#8216;Introduction&#8217;\u00a0my new book, &#8220;Bludgeon the Clown,&#8221; by the publisher.\u00a0 It was a perfectly good illustration and blurb, but its point and purpose in the book was better illustrated with better material&#8230;I can hardly wait to show you.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I can only\u00a0share the juicy rejects&#8230;\u00a0 Next week: The Jester. \u00a0-Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Book Excerpt The HOBO This\u00a0poor,\u00a0pathetic fellow has fallen completely out of favor with the public since the death of the American dream.\u00a0 The hobo, once a celebrated icon of pop culture, is now despised by people taking heavy losses in the corporate class war and the ever widening income gap.\u00a0 Too many people, who have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hobo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242,125,109],"tags":[210,105,128,176,99,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}