{"id":186047,"date":"2014-05-30T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/30\/what-p-z-meyers-said\/"},"modified":"2014-05-30T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T01:20:00","slug":"what-p-z-meyers-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/30\/what-p-z-meyers-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What P.Z. Meyers Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He wrote a post complaining about business as usual at the Democratic Party titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2014\/05\/30\/democrats-you-suck\/\">Democrats: You suck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His experience is that, following making a small donation to a Democratic candidate for office, he has been bludgeoned into something approaching PTSD from their repeated fund raising requests:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026 At least I think that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing; I now look at the incoming source, and if it\u2019s the Democrats, I don\u2019t bother to pick up. And here I am, entirely sympathetic to that party (if dissatisfied with their conservatism), and I have a conditioned aversion now.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">I\u2019ve had enough. I can learn. And the moral I have learned is to never donate to the Democratic party.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Who\u2019s the idiot behind this campaign? Is it actually working for them?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do Republicans do the same thing to their donors, or do they just scam them with things like gold coins and quack cures?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wrote a post complaining about business as usual at the Democratic Party titled, &#8220;Democrats: You suck. His experience is that, following making a small donation to a Democratic candidate for office, he has been bludgeoned into something approaching PTSD from their repeated fund raising requests: \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 At least I think that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,1094,1002,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aggravation","category-campaign-finance","category-good-writing","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186047"}],"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=186047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}