{"id":175577,"date":"2021-01-17T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/17\/today-in-political-weirdness\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:39:00","slug":"today-in-political-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/17\/today-in-political-weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Political Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Blue Demon Jr., the &#8220;adopted son&#8221; of the legendary luchador Blue Demon, is running for mayor of the Mexico City municipality of Gustavo A. Madero (GAM) as a progressive. He is anonymous, and says he will only reveal his identity to authorities if he wins <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i93MJ3dfWm\">https:\/\/t.co\/i93MJ3dfWm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopulismUpdates\/status\/1350978737932824580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is actually kind of reassuring.<\/p>\n<p>It shows that the USA is not alone in the mishugas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Demon Jr., the &#8220;adopted son&#8221; of the legendary luchador Blue Demon, is running for mayor of the Mexico City municipality of Gustavo A. Madero (GAM) as a progressive. He is anonymous, and says he will only reveal his identity to authorities if he wins https:\/\/t.co\/i93MJ3dfWm \u2014 Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) January 18, 2021 This is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[557,374,503,421],"class_list":["post-175577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mexico","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}