{"id":19635,"date":"2013-03-29T09:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19635"},"modified":"2019-07-18T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:19:03","slug":"duffel-blog-f-35-inducted-into-nyc-air-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/29\/duffel-blog-f-35-inducted-into-nyc-air-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Duffel Blog: F-35 inducted into NYC Air Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scoop from the keen bunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2013\/03\/f-35-fighter-is-newest-exhibit-at-new-york-city-air-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Duffel Blog<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sources confirmed that the F-35 Lightning II was inducted yesterday into the Intrepid, Sea, Air, and Space Museum in New York City. The closed door ceremony was the high point for the F-35, capping off the fighter\u2019s illustrious warfighting career as the most colossal fuck-up in military acquisition history.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>Duffel Blog<\/em> reporters, museum curator Saul Rosenblatt said, \u201cWe weren\u2019t sure if the F-35 was up to snuff as an exhibit in this museum. We take great pride in displaying planes with a robust combat history, like the A-4 Skyhawk and the A-6 Intruder. We passed on the F-22 Raptor because that was an even bigger piece of shit fighter jet. We had no choice but to display the F-35 between the crapper and the concession stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a cost of over $137 million per plane, it makes the surface area underneath the exhibit\u2019s landing gear the most expensive real estate in New York City. Per square foot, this will drive up apartment values across the entire West Side,\u201d said an overjoyed real estate agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the project\u2019s total cost of almost $400 billion you could have bought the Louvre and had some money left to shop at Saks,\u201d a downtown designer told <em>TDB<\/em>. When asked his opinion about the F-35, construction worker Dominick Antonelli said \u201cthat\u2019s all we need here, another overpaid, sucky, New York Jet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scoop from the keen bunch at The Duffel Blog: Sources confirmed that the F-35 Lightning II was inducted yesterday into the Intrepid, Sea, Air, and Space Museum in New York City. The closed door ceremony was the high point for the F-35, capping off the fighter\u2019s illustrious warfighting career as the most colossal fuck-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,5,13],"tags":[559,1298,321,463],"class_list":["post-19635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-military","category-usa","tag-f-35","tag-museum","tag-nyc","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-56H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49725,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635\/revisions\/49725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}