{"id":182372,"date":"2015-10-07T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/07\/gawdammit-florida\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T00:24:00","slug":"gawdammit-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/07\/gawdammit-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Gawdammit, Florida!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a firm believer in the principle that there should never be any sort of religious requirement for holding any position of public trust.<\/p>\n<p>Still, when I heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1564800\/senate-candidate-admits-sacrificing-goat\">candidate for US Senate who admits to having sacrificed a goat and drinking its blood<\/a>, I shake my head, and say, &#8220;Only in Florida&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A lawyer who is standing for the US Senate in Florida has admitted killing a goat and drinking its blood as part of a sacrifice &#8220;to the god of the wilderness&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Augustus Sol Invictus, who changed his name to the Latin phrase which means &#8220;majestic unconquered sun&#8221;, has accused critics of running a smear campaign against him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The 32-year-old is a member of the Libertarian Party in Florida and said he carried out the sacrifice as part of a pagan ritual.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He said: &#8220;I did sacrifice a goat. I know that&#8217;s probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I sacrificed an animal to the god of the wilderness &#8230; yes, I drank the goat&#8217;s blood.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr Invictus was responding after the chairman of the Libertarian Party of Florida, Adrian Wyllie, resigned, calling on party leaders to denounce his candidacy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Florida, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for them to elect Marilyn Manson governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a firm believer in the principle that there should never be any sort of religious requirement for holding any position of public trust. Still, when I heard about candidate for US Senate who admits to having sacrificed a goat and drinking its blood, I shake my head, and say, &#8220;Only in Florida&#8221;. A &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1021,982,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-religion","category-stupid","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182372"}],"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=182372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}