{"id":694,"date":"2011-01-09T19:07:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manq.it\/?p=694"},"modified":"2011-01-09T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T18:08:35","slug":"god-hates-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/2011\/01\/09\/god-hates-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"God hates us all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><em>[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThe office is in the heart of Hell&#8217;s Kitchen. On the second floor of a storefront promising fake IDs and Live XXX, I find the door with Head Investigations stenciled on the tempered glass. There is no receptionist, just the Head-man himself, leaning back in his chair, feet on the desk. He wears a tracksuit that looks more ironic than functional &#8211; Henry Head must weight three hundred pounds. He notes my arrival, washing half a Twinkie down his throat with a Snapple. &#8220;Brunch&#8221;, he explains, gesturing toward a couch splattered with mysterious stains. &#8220;Make yourself at home.&#8221;<br \/>\nI play it safe, resting my ass against the armrest. A radiator clangs noisily in the corner, pushing the temperature about five degrees higher than conmfortable. It really does feel like home.<br \/>\n&#8220;Do you have any idea how many Peter Robichauxs there are in the tristate area alone?&#8221; Head asks.<br \/>\nI shake my head.<br \/>\n&#8220;Me neither. Maybe someday with the computers and all that we&#8217;ll have some way of knowing. Untill then, we got the white pages.&#8221; He holds up a weathered phone book.<br \/>\nMy internal temperature rises to match the room. &#8220;Let me get this straight,&#8221; I say. &#8220;I just paid you five hundred dollars to skim the phone book?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You ever heard of Occam&#8217;s razor? The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Actually, Occam&#8217;s razor says the simplest explanation is usually the right one,&#8221; I say, drawing on my single semester of philosophy.<br \/>\n&#8220;No shit? Then what do you call the thing about the straight line?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I think that&#8217;s just &#8216;the thing about the straight line&#8217;.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe holds up his palms in mock self-defense. &#8220;I never claimed to be a scholar.&#8221;<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;] The office is in the heart of Hell&#8217;s Kitchen. On the second floor of a storefront promising fake IDs and Live XXX, I find the door with Head Investigations stenciled on the tempered glass. There is no receptionist, just the Head-man himself, leaning back in his chair, feet on the desk. He wears a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/2011\/01\/09\/god-hates-us-all\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Leggi tutto &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God hates us all<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manq.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}