{"id":185014,"date":"2011-11-08T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/08\/why-i-havent-written-about-laffaire-cain\/"},"modified":"2011-11-08T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:10:00","slug":"why-i-havent-written-about-laffaire-cain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/08\/why-i-havent-written-about-laffaire-cain\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Haven&#8217;t Written About L&#8217;Affaire Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it is the Republican presidential primary, and it&#8217;s so whacky that all I can do is make fun of them.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the reality that is <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.talkingpointsmemo.com\/Herman-Cain\">Herman Cain<\/a> simply beyond my meager literary gifts to ridicule.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t beat the straight news.<\/p>\n<p>A quick search of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\"><i>The Onion<\/i><\/a> reveals that they haven&#8217;t covered it either, to their (far better) writers appear to be flummoxed by this as well.<\/p>\n<p>Will Rogers I ain&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it is the Republican presidential primary, and it&#8217;s so whacky that all I can do is make fun of them. Unfortunately, the reality that is Herman Cain simply beyond my meager literary gifts to ridicule.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t beat the straight news. A quick search of The Onion reveals that they haven&#8217;t covered it either, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,977,1177,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-presidential-campaign","category-scandal","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185014"}],"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=185014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}