{"id":182930,"date":"2015-05-03T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/03\/the-clown-show-abides\/"},"modified":"2015-05-03T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T23:46:00","slug":"the-clown-show-abides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/03\/the-clown-show-abides\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clown Show Abides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon, and right wing nut-job Ben Carson has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/05\/ben-carson-says-he-will-run-for-president-117589.html\">announced that he is running for President<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ben Carson confirmed on Sunday that he will be announcing his presidential bid on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, made the announcement in a television interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.local12.com\/news\/features\/top-stories\/stories\/Ben-Carson-announces-his-run-for-President-126135.shtml\">with Sinclair Broadcasting<\/a> ahead of his formal campaign kickoff event, still scheduled for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/04\/ben-carson-2016-announcement-2016-bid-detroit-116946.html\">Monday in Detroit <\/a>. Carson suggested to POLITICO the interview was a pre-interview to be released around the time of the announcement but said in it: \u201cI\u2019m willing to be a part of the equation, and, therefore, I\u2019m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.\u201d <\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>Carson later acknowledged that he did informally disclose his candidacy. His comments came at the Detroit Music Hall, where he was preparing to rehearse for his announcement.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So many Republican candidates, and most of them are walking advertisements for psychotropic medication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon, and right wing nut-job Ben Carson has announced that he is running for President: Ben Carson confirmed on Sunday that he will be announcing his presidential bid on Monday. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, made the announcement in a television interview with Sinclair Broadcasting ahead of his formal campaign kickoff event, still scheduled for Monday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,1104,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-psychology","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182930"}],"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=182930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}