{"id":186218,"date":"2014-04-01T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/01\/the-stupidest-political-scandal-of-the-season-so-far\/"},"modified":"2014-04-01T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:40:00","slug":"the-stupidest-political-scandal-of-the-season-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/01\/the-stupidest-political-scandal-of-the-season-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupidest Political Scandal of the Season (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gv7aILg.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gv7aILg.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a>Seriously, why the hell does anyone care if a <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/florida-gop-candidate-vampire-role-player\">candidate for the US Congress in Florida does vampire LARP<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An attorney challenging first-term Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) moonlights as a live-action vampire role-player, according to a Florida political news site.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">SaintPetersBlog on Tuesday detailed Jake Rush&#8217;s involvement in the Mind&#8217;s Eye Society, a national community of live-action role-players. Rush played a host of supernatural characters &#8212; \u201cChazz Darling&#8221; and \u201cStaas van der Winst&#8221; were just two of his alter-egos &#8212; and kept up an active presence on the Camarilla Wiki Project, a Wikipedia-like website that allowed role-players to share content.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Business Insider also reported that Rush appears to have held a prominent position with a Florida-based group called the &#8220;Covenant of the Poisoned Absinthe,&#8221; which stages &#8220;an assortment of games from White Wolf&#8217;s selection, including Vampire: The Masquerade, Changeling: The Lost, and Mage: The Awakening.&#8221; White Wolf publishes live-action role-playing games for the Mind&#8217;s Eye community.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Why does anyone give a f%$# about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, why the hell does anyone care if a candidate for the US Congress in Florida does vampire LARP? An attorney challenging first-term Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) moonlights as a live-action vampire role-player, according to a Florida political news site. SaintPetersBlog on Tuesday detailed Jake Rush&#8217;s involvement in the Mind&#8217;s Eye Society, a national community &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087,974,978,982,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-hack-journalism","category-politics","category-stupid","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186218"}],"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=186218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}