{"id":197629,"date":"2008-01-21T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/ok-maybe-ill-console-my-self-with-the-rudolph-clown-show\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T04:09:00","slug":"ok-maybe-ill-console-my-self-with-the-rudolph-clown-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/ok-maybe-ill-console-my-self-with-the-rudolph-clown-show\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Maybe I&#8217;ll Console My Self With the Rudolph Clown Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siena.edu\/level2col.aspx?menu_id=562&amp;id=14355\">Siena New York Poll has him behind John McCain by 12 points in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">New York State<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Freddie Thompson Clown Show may be on its way out, but Rudy is doing a good job to pick up the pathetic humor in the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Rudy showed up to a NASCAR race, and <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2008\/01\/21\/595643.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">begged<\/span> to be allowed to drive the pace car<\/a>, after making a circuit in his bus, but wasn&#8217;t allowed.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a good substitute  source of my minimum RDA of Schadenfreude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Siena New York Poll has him behind John McCain by 12 points in New York State. The Freddie Thompson Clown Show may be on its way out, but Rudy is doing a good job to pick up the pathetic humor in the presidential campaign. After all, Rudy showed up to a NASCAR race, 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":[978,977,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197629"}],"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=197629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}