{"id":179322,"date":"2018-03-22T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/22\/this-may-be-the-best-twitter-exchange-ever\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T22:59:00","slug":"this-may-be-the-best-twitter-exchange-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/22\/this-may-be-the-best-twitter-exchange-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"This May be the Best Twitter Exchange Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to attacks from Chris Cuomo proxies yesterday, actress, and now candidate for the Democratic Nomination for Governor, Cynthia Nixon Tweeted the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWhen I announced yesterday that I\u2019m running for gov, one of Cuomo\u2019s top surrogates dismissed me as an \u201cunqualified lesbian.\u201d It\u2019s true that I never received my certificate from the Department of Lesbian Affairs, though in my defense there\u2019s a lot of paperwork required.\u201d \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Cynthia Nixon (@CynthiaNixon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CynthiaNixon\/status\/976606164539633664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The response from Twitter user @mecreature was one for the ages:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You should take it. The oral exam is awesome.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 MeC (@mecreature) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mecreature\/status\/976608221128372225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MeC owes me a screen wipe, and we owe MeC a major book deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to attacks from Chris Cuomo proxies yesterday, actress, and now candidate for the Democratic Nomination for Governor, Cynthia Nixon Tweeted the following: \u201cWhen I announced yesterday that I\u2019m running for gov, one of Cuomo\u2019s top surrogates dismissed me as an \u201cunqualified lesbian.\u201d It\u2019s true that I never received my certificate from the Department &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":[464,367,436,374,390],"class_list":["post-179322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-internet","tag-lgbtq","tag-politics","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179322"}],"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=179322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}