{"id":1012,"date":"2009-03-23T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2009-03-23T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:19:27","slug":"sylvia-plaths-son-commits-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/sylvia-plaths-son-commits-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Plath&#8217;s Son Commits Suicide&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we kinda saw <em>that<\/em> coming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sidewalk-art.jpg\" alt=\"sidewalk-art.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"265\" \/>(New genre, <em>depressing graffiti<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about as shocking as finding out Stephen Spielberg&#8217;s son is a great director, OJ&#8217;s son killed a white women, or Robbie Knievel&#8217;s son jumps a huge shark tank wearing nothing but glow-in-the dark body paint&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Hughes, the son of tragedy-scarred poets <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1237809813_0\">Ted Hughes<\/span> and <span style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1237809813_1\">Sylvia Plath<\/span> has hung himself, 46 years after his mother gassed herself. Sounds like one big happy family. Here&#8217;s what we think they might have looked like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sad-mystery-family.jpg\" alt=\"sad-mystery-family.jpg\" height=\"367\" width=\"264\" \/>(Smile!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen happier people in a freaking cemetery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Shit sakes, they look more depressed than Detroit Lions season ticket holders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily we also have a photo of Nicholas&#8217;s lovable companion <em>Downer<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/his-dog-downer.jpg\" alt=\"his-dog-downer.jpg\" height=\"352\" width=\"267\" \/>(Haaarm, what&#8217;s the point?!?!)<\/p>\n<p>Buck up champ, at least you can lick your balls&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>One <em>Trillion<\/em> Dollars<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dr-evil.jpg\" alt=\"dr-evil.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"267\" \/>(Holy coinage batman!)<\/p>\n<p>A top-ranking Obama administration economist says a new bank rescue initiative will clean up stricken <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1237808372_0\">financial institutions<\/span> so that they can resume normal lending&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who exactly said it? This <em>guy<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/christina-romer.jpg\" alt=\"christina-romer.jpg\" height=\"344\" width=\"269\" \/>(Excuse me sir)<\/p>\n<p>Christina Romer! Christina, wait, that&#8217;s a ladies name&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/nervous-salesman.jpg\" alt=\"nervous-salesman.jpg\" height=\"219\" width=\"272\" \/> (Yeeeshhhh)<\/p>\n<p>She might know how to help our troubled economy, but I saw a 5 o&#8217;clock shadow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s got a face made for radio&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to buy as much as $1 trillion in toxic assets that are weighing on banks&#8217; balance sheets, stifling their ability to resume more normal lending to families and businesses. Yay! Let <em>us<\/em> buy all the shitty stuff. This is like when your sister-in-law has a &#8220;make-up party&#8221; to get all her sucker friends to buy the crap no one else would ever touch as a regular consumer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It better work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Big shoot day tomorrow, wish us luck. Have a day!<\/p>\n<div id=\"bolge-3954338524\" class=\"bolge-after-content bolge-entity-placement\"><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"44284-1271501652\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" data-protocol=\"https\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we kinda saw that coming&#8230; (New genre, depressing graffiti) It&#8217;s about as shocking as finding out Stephen Spielberg&#8217;s son is a great director, OJ&#8217;s son killed a white women, or Robbie Knievel&#8217;s son jumps a huge shark tank wearing nothing but glow-in-the dark body paint&#8230; Nicholas Hughes, the son of tragedy-scarred poets Ted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-comedy-satire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}