{"id":189048,"date":"2010-06-01T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/01\/ok-so-al-and-tipper-gore-are-separating\/"},"modified":"2010-06-01T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T01:33:00","slug":"ok-so-al-and-tipper-gore-are-separating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/01\/ok-so-al-and-tipper-gore-are-separating\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, So Al and Tipper Gore are Separating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really no one&#8217;s business but their own.  They are both over 60, and they have been married for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really none of our business.<\/p>\n<p>So, why am I writing about this?<\/p>\n<p>Because once again, the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> demonstrates just how horrible a human being you have to be in order to have some sort of gig writing opinions for them.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it&#8217;s Stephen Stromberg, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/postpartisan\/2010\/06\/but_what_about_al_and_tipper_g.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">suggesting that there was something &#8220;false&#8221; about their kiss at the Democratic Convention in 2000 because they are getting separated now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s making a point about people complaining about Obama being too cook, but he can&#8217;t manage <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> to take a shot at a married couple who are breaking up after 40 years, because that&#8217;s what the Beltway Kule Kidz do.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stromberg, I&#8217;m sure that you don&#8217;t read my screeds, but you are a miserable human being, and I would not piss on you if you were on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure:  I did actually vote for Nader in 2000, because my vote did not matter, as I lived in Texas, and I regret that vote to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really no one&#8217;s business but their own. They are both over 60, and they have been married for 40 years. It&#8217;s really none of our business. So, why am I writing about this? Because once again, the Washington Post demonstrates just how horrible a human being you have to be in order to have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,974,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-hack-journalism","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189048"}],"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=189048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}