{"id":67385,"date":"2015-04-11T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T03:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=67385"},"modified":"2015-04-11T19:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T03:43:30","slug":"what-happened-to-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=67385","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To Satire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/winners-of-the-war-of-the-sixties-call-for-a-cease-fire-in-place-part-78-garry-trudeau\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: When I was young in the Sixties and Seventies, the Spirit of the Age was all about satire and disrespecting sacred cows. A lot of youngish people emerged triumphant from that era and many of them are still around. 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