{"id":187494,"date":"2011-06-13T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/13\/the-republican-presidential-clown-show-just-got-clownier\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T00:46:00","slug":"the-republican-presidential-clown-show-just-got-clownier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/06\/13\/the-republican-presidential-clown-show-just-got-clownier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Presidential Clown Show Just Got Clownier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 210px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/drama.gif\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pass the Popcorn<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Bachmann <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304665904576384383427193912.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">has made it official<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. Michele Bachmann (R., Minn.) said Monday that she had formally become a Republican candidate for president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ms. Bachmann&#8217;s announcement had been expected, though the forum was not. It came while she was participating in a CNN-televised debate for Republicans seeking to challenge President Barack Obama.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somewhere, Jon Stewart is rejoicing, and Stephen Colbert is beside himself with glee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pass the Popcorn Bachmann has made it official: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R., Minn.) said Monday that she had formally become a Republican candidate for president. Ms. Bachmann&#8217;s announcement had been expected, though the forum was not. It came while she was participating in a CNN-televised debate for Republicans seeking to challenge President Barack Obama. Somewhere, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187494"}],"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=187494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}