{"id":187458,"date":"2011-06-22T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/22\/dearie-have-you-considered-ritalin\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T00:21:00","slug":"dearie-have-you-considered-ritalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/22\/dearie-have-you-considered-ritalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearie, Have You Considered Ritalin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the half term governor of Alaska, and Miss it-took-six-colleges-to-get-a-degree-in-journalism, Sarah Palin, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/06\/22\/report-palin-quits-bus-tour-halfway-through-retreats-to-alaska\/\">quit her nationwide bus tour about halfway through her schedule<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Amid diminishing media interest, Sarah Palin has quit her high-profile bus tour halfway through and returned to Alaska with her family, according to RealClearPolitics.<\/p>\n<p>The move puts a damper on widespread speculations that Palin&#8217;s &#8220;One Nation&#8221; bus tour, which launched on Memorial Day, was a precursor to a potential White House bid for 2012. Palin never made it to her scheduled stops in the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>RealClearPolitics, which originally broke the story about the bus tour, reported Wednesday on Palin&#8217;s &#8220;extended hiatus.&#8221; The remaining legs of her trip, according to Scott Conroy, are &#8220;in limbo&#8221; as &#8220;Palin and her family have reverted to the friendly confines of summertime Alaska.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, can this woman finish <b>anything<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p>Either Sarah Palin is the most pathetic person on the face of the earth, or she is the most inspired performance artist ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the half term governor of Alaska, and Miss it-took-six-colleges-to-get-a-degree-in-journalism, Sarah Palin, has quit her nationwide bus tour about halfway through her schedule: Amid diminishing media interest, Sarah Palin has quit her high-profile bus tour halfway through and returned to Alaska with her family, according to RealClearPolitics. The move puts a damper on widespread speculations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187458"}],"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=187458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}