{"id":176172,"date":"2020-08-18T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/18\/beyond-my-capability-for-parody\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T23:29:00","slug":"beyond-my-capability-for-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/18\/beyond-my-capability-for-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond My Capability for Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The Republican National Convention will feature the St. Louis Ken and Karen at their convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I just can’t:<\/p>\n

The Republican Party will hold its convention next week, and apart from some discussion of where exactly President Trump will deliver his address, almost no details have been made public about what it will look like. But on Monday, as Democrats were staging the first night of their convention, The Post\u2019s Josh Dawsey reported<\/a> this remarkable piece of news:<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The St. Louis couple who became famous after wielding guns at protesters on their private street will be part of the largely digital Republican National Convention next week, Trump advisers said this week.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The couple \u2014 Patricia and Mark McCloskey \u2014 will appear on behalf of the president during the virtual weeklong event and express their support for him, the officials said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I said on Twitter<\/a>, at this point if you told me that Derek Chauvin<\/a> would be addressing the Republican convention from his jail cell, I\u2019d barely be surprised.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This reality sucks.  I want off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican National Convention will feature the St. Louis Ken and Karen at their convention. I just can’t: The Republican Party will hold its convention next week, and apart from some discussion of where exactly President Trump will deliver his address, almost no details have been made public about what it will look like. But …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[374,405,421,610],"class_list":["post-176172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-weird","tag-wypipo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176172"}],"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=176172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}