{"id":185622,"date":"2014-09-26T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/26\/please-someone-anyone-make-it-stop\/"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:33:00","slug":"please-someone-anyone-make-it-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/26\/please-someone-anyone-make-it-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Please, Someone \u2026\u2026\u2026 Anyone Make it Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"219\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EeJMLPN83BU\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>At about 1:30<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I understand that the right wing in general, and Caribou Barbie in particular, find the Obama administration to be a veritable font of mendacity.<\/p>\n<p>That is the nature of politics these days.<\/p>\n<p>However, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/white-house\/sarah-palin-says-the-white-house-is-located-at-1400-pennsylvania-avenue-20140926\">Sarah Palin says that &#8220;Truth is an endangered species at <u><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">1400<\/span><\/u> Pennsylvania Avenue<\/a>, I just want to bang my head until I lose consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.&nbsp; This woman has me aching for the quiet competence of J. Danforth &#8220;Dan&#8221; Quayle. <\/p>\n<p>But she still is a force in right wing politics, so I still have to pay attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about 1:30 I understand that the right wing in general, and Caribou Barbie in particular, find the Obama administration to be a veritable font of mendacity. That is the nature of politics these days. However, when Sarah Palin says that &#8220;Truth is an endangered species at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, I just want to bang &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982,1027,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid","category-video","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185622"}],"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=185622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}