{"id":181616,"date":"2016-05-04T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/04\/cue-the-queen-song-and-i-dont-mean-bohemian-rhapsody\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:43:00","slug":"cue-the-queen-song-and-i-dont-mean-bohemian-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/04\/cue-the-queen-song-and-i-dont-mean-bohemian-rhapsody\/","title":{"rendered":"Cue the Queen Song, and I Don&#8217;t Mean Bohemian Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 340px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rY0WxgSXdEE?rel=0\" width=\"330\"><\/iframe><i><\/i><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, Cruz dropped out, and today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/05\/us\/politics\/john-kasich.html\">Kasich threw in the towel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, a moderate voice who tried to portray himself as the adult in the Republican primary field but failed to win any state but his own, ended his long-shot quest for the presidency on Wednesday, cementing Donald J. Trump\u2019s grip on the presidential nomination.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Kasich\u2019s departure, a day after Mr. Trump\u2019s victory in the Indiana primary, leaves Mr. Trump as the only candidate remaining in the Republican race. His closest challenger, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, dropped out Tuesday night.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republicans have a nominee, and I am tremendously amused.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remember who is leading in the Democratic primary, and I haz a sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Cruz dropped out, and today, Kasich threw in the towel: Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, a moderate voice who tried to portray himself as the adult in the Republican primary field but failed to win any state but his own, ended his long-shot quest for the presidency on Wednesday, cementing Donald J. Trump\u2019s grip &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,1019,979,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-schadenfreude","category-wanker","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181616"}],"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=181616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}