{"id":188252,"date":"2010-11-02T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/02\/i-havent-followed-out-of-state-initiatives-much\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T19:03:00","slug":"i-havent-followed-out-of-state-initiatives-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/02\/i-havent-followed-out-of-state-initiatives-much\/","title":{"rendered":"I Haven&#8217;t Followed Out of State Initiatives Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.wa.gov\/elections\/initiatives\/people.aspx#1069\">this one in Washington State is prize<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ballot Measure Summary<\/span><br \/>This measure would require the Seal of the State of Washington to be changed to depict a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">vignette of a tapeworm dressed in a three piece suit attached to the lower intestine of a taxpayer<\/span> shown as the central figure. The seal would be required to be encircled with the following words: \u201cCommitted to sucking the life blood out of each and every tax payer.\u201d The illustration would be selected from submissions submitted by taxpayers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just when you thought that the silly season could not get any sillier\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>H\/t DC at  the by invitation only <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But this one in Washington State is prize: Ballot Measure SummaryThis measure would require the Seal of the State of Washington to be changed to depict a vignette of a tapeworm dressed in a three piece suit attached to the lower intestine of a taxpayer shown as the central figure. The seal would be required &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1000,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-elections","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188252"}],"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=188252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}