{"id":192192,"date":"2009-04-29T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/29\/it-could-be-worse-i-could-live-in-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T01:32:00","slug":"it-could-be-worse-i-could-live-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/29\/it-could-be-worse-i-could-live-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"It Could Be Worse, I Could Live in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And be represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/28\/michele-bachmann-links-sw_n_192493.html\">Michele Bachmann<\/a>, though she is worth a spit take.<\/p>\n<p>Latest case in point:  Suggesting that the Swine Flu outbreak is some sort of Democratic Party plot:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8216;I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I&#8217;m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it&#8217;s an interesting coincidence.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except, of course, it happened under Gerald Ford, and the media frenzy over the flu was electioneering largely driven by Ford&#8217;s SecDef, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Don Rumsfeld<\/span>, like a bad apple, he keeps turning up.<\/p>\n<p>The stupid, it burns, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">it burns<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And be represented by Michele Bachmann, though she is worth a spit take. Latest case in point: Suggesting that the Swine Flu outbreak is some sort of Democratic Party plot: &#8216;I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-health","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192192"}],"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=192192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}