{"id":17273,"date":"2018-05-04T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17273"},"modified":"2018-05-04T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:00:23","slug":"forcing-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/05\/04\/forcing-the-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"forcing the issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The political divide showers us with&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tri-cityherald.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/article210253464.html\">Evan Mecham showers us with a mock Communist letter telling us about the plot for gun confiscation<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It does take a minute to figure out from whence this letter is coming from, because the sarcastic arguments would have to be explained, even if it is fully encapsulated in the letterer to the editor&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<p>Align this with the flutter of the comic at the Correspondents Dinner, with defenders at twitter making the charge in the way of &#8220;black woman says this &#8212; HOW OUTRAGEOUS.\u00c2\u00a0 Pro-lifer suggests death penalty for women &#8212; Let&#8217;s listen to what he has to say&#8221;&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Again, forced sarcasm, which\u00c2\u00a0we&#8217;re now mixing up\u00c2\u00a0hot topic issues and jumping to extremes to get to a\u00c2\u00a0argument of a double standard.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit of a thick wicket&#8230; the twitterers who stuck with the obvious &#8220;&#8230; and Trump said what?&#8221;&#8230; are on better and more immediate ground.<\/p>\n<p>(Then again, my point on finding next year&#8217;s safe comic brought me to Rich Little &#8212; which offers the question: is there someone female who can step in?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an idea:\u00c2\u00a0 Roseanne Barr!!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political divide showers us with&#8230; Evan Mecham showers us with a mock Communist letter telling us about the plot for gun confiscation.\u00c2\u00a0 It does take a minute to figure out from whence this letter is coming from, because the sarcastic arguments would have to be explained, even if it is fully encapsulated in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17281,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273\/revisions\/17281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}