{"id":3502,"date":"2015-02-26T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2015-02-26T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T21:22:02","slug":"the-americans-beyond-the-frosted-glass-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"The Americans &#8212; Beyond the Frosted Glass Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/imgres-21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3468\" title=\"imgres-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/imgres-21-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/imgres-21-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/imgres-21.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What revisionist bullhockey will <em>The Americans <\/em>try to shove up our butts this week? (And yes, I&#8217;m using bullhockey because I would like \u00a0recaps of <em>The Americans<\/em> to be a thing on <em>The Rachel Maddow Show,<\/em> kind of like the way Keith Olbermann used to read Thurber stories on Friday only more better.) The answer is: The Boland Amendment! That&#8217;s right for those of you old enough to remember who weren&#8217;t too stoned to care! For you young &#8216;uns, the Boland Amendment was a weak compromise that made it a little harder to give money to the right-wing death squads to overthrow the democratically-elected leftist government in Nicaragua. This led to Reagan and his cronies finding other ways to fund them, which gave us the Iran\/Contra scandal and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/10\/10\/gary-webb-dark-alliance_n_5961748.html\">CRACK COCAINE.<\/a> What the Boland Amendment was NOT was a communist conspiracy from the Soviet Union except maybe in the wet dreams of Dick Cheney. SO PLEASE SHOW SHUT UP ABOUT THE POLITICS BECAUSE YOU ARE MAKING MY HEAD EXPLODE.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to catch my complete &#8216;cap of the episode or any of my fine writing about television, please head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/happynicetimepeople.com\/americans-beyond-frosted-glass-door\/\">Happy Nice Time People. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(If you want to help pay my cable bill, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/literary-work-2\/\">buy something for almost nothing<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What revisionist bullhockey will The Americans try to shove up our butts this week? (And yes, I&#8217;m using bullhockey because I would like \u00a0recaps of The Americans to be a thing on The Rachel Maddow Show, kind of like the way Keith Olbermann used to read Thurber stories on Friday only more better.) The answer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Americans &#8212; Beyond the Frosted Glass Door<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[1123,502,1081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}