{"id":2649,"date":"2010-03-03T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2010-03-03T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T00:17:33","slug":"death-jon-swift-aka-al-weisel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/03\/03\/death-jon-swift-aka-al-weisel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest In Peace Jon Swift a\/k\/a Al Weisel (Updated With &#8220;Limerick Ode To Jon Swift&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve updated this with a limerick in Jon Swift&#8217;s honor at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, there&#8217;s tragic news in the blogging and journalism communities: One of my favorite satirical bloggers, the brilliant Jon Swift a\/k\/a journalist Al Weisel has died suddenly.   <a href=\"http:\/\/tomwatson.typepad.com\/tom_watson\/2010\/03\/a-death-in-the-blogging-family.html\">Tom Watson has the details<\/a> about the death of this hilarious faux conservative blogger. <\/p>\n<p>What a terrible loss!  Rest in peace, Jon Swift.  Your wit will be sorely missed throughout the left blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/theimpolitic.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/blogging-crying-rip-jon-swift.html\">Libby Spencer has eulogized Jon beautifully here,<\/a> and so have <a href=\"http:\/\/bgalrstate.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/rest-in-peace-jon-swift.html\">Blue Gal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/rip-jon-swift.html\">Melissa at Shakesville<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/xnerg.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/rip-al-weisel-aka-jon-swift.html\">skippy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve written a limerick in honor of Jon Swift:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To Jon Swift<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A Swiftian journo named Jon<br \/>\nWas brilliant, but sadly is gone.<br \/>\nHis wit will be missed<br \/>\nCuz none could resist<br \/>\nThe posts in his <a href=\" http:\/\/jonswift.blogspot.com\/\">humor salon.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: I&#8217;ve updated this with a limerick in Jon Swift&#8217;s honor at the bottom of this post. Alas, there&#8217;s tragic news in the blogging and journalism communities: One of my favorite satirical bloggers, the brilliant Jon Swift a\/k\/a journalist Al Weisel has died suddenly. Tom Watson has the details about the death of this hilarious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[2833,405],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-blogger-news","tag-blogosphere","tag-lefty-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}