{"id":194312,"date":"2008-10-06T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/06\/overheard-on-stellar-parthenon-2\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T10:15:00","slug":"overheard-on-stellar-parthenon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/06\/overheard-on-stellar-parthenon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheard on Stellar Parthenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to JR for this teachable moment<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I have a British coworker. We were discussing the election and he just shook his head. &#8220;Explain this Palin woman to me,&#8221; more of a rhetorical WTF than an actual request but I obliged him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we are looking at is the first chav presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He looked suitably horrified. &#8220;But what about the current bloke?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ok, second chav presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bugger.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to JR for this teachable moment I have a British coworker. We were discussing the election and he just shook his head. &#8220;Explain this Palin woman to me,&#8221; more of a rhetorical WTF than an actual request but I obliged him. &#8220;What we are looking at is the first chav presidency.&#8221; He looked suitably &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194312"}],"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=194312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}