{"id":179036,"date":"2018-06-07T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/07\/this-is-throwing-some-serious-shade\/"},"modified":"2018-06-07T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T23:43:00","slug":"this-is-throwing-some-serious-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/07\/this-is-throwing-some-serious-shade\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Throwing Some Serious Shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PcJ73hj.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PcJ73hj.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>If you have been following politics at all, you know that Bernie Sanders has been doing a lot of campaigning for a lot of progressive candidates.<\/p>\n<p>One that he hasn&#8217;t campaigned for is his son, Levi, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/politics\/2018\/06\/07\/sandersson\/TyJ5e6E7dXbvFwP9ocPU9L\/story.html?event=event25\">running for Congress in New Hampshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it&#8217;s a remarkably lackluster campaign, but when asked about this, Bernie said the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Levi has spent his life in service to low income and working families, and I am very proud of all that he has done,\u201d he said. \u201cIn our family, however, <b><span style=\"font-size: 140%; font-variant: small-caps;\">We Do Not Believe In Dynastic Politics<\/span><\/b>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Hmm \u2026\u2026\u2026I wonder who <b>THAT<\/b> comment referred to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been following politics at all, you know that Bernie Sanders has been doing a lot of campaigning for a lot of progressive candidates. One that he hasn&#8217;t campaigned for is his son, Levi, who is running for Congress in New Hampshire. Admittedly, it&#8217;s a remarkably lackluster campaign, but when asked about this, &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":[423,374,390],"class_list":["post-179036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-politics","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179036"}],"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=179036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}