{"id":2270,"date":"2007-05-15T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T19:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/15\/what-say-you-tinky-winky\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T19:51:58","slug":"what-say-you-tinky-winky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/15\/what-say-you-tinky-winky\/","title":{"rendered":"What say you, Tinky Winky?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There aren&#8217;t a lot of people who&#8217;s death\u00c2\u00a0provides me a smile.\u00c2\u00a0 Jerry Falwell is one of\u00c2\u00a0those few, and I now wonder how one celebrates this occassion.<\/p>\n<p>We watch the Republican presidential candidates and the White House give out carefully worded statements that appear to be complimentary, but when you look at them are not.\u00c2\u00a0 McCain, Romney, and Tony Snow all have done so.\u00c2\u00a0 There will be a number of politicians, those with a heavy religious right\u00c2\u00a0contingent of\u00c2\u00a0a constituency, who will\u00c2\u00a0go into somber and lovey dovey responses of merry mirth.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch for them.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Political wise, it may be worth checking in and keeping a list of those politicians who opt not to make a comment on Falwell.\u00c2\u00a0 They receive a point.\u00c2\u00a0 It is too much to ask anyone to give a derogatory comment.\u00c2\u00a0 Any who do get two points.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; Tinky Winky, what say you?\u00c2\u00a0 Christopher Hitchens &#8212; What say you?\u00c2\u00a0 Larry Flynt &#8212; what say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There aren&#8217;t a lot of people who&#8217;s death\u00c2\u00a0provides me a smile.\u00c2\u00a0 Jerry Falwell is one of\u00c2\u00a0those few, and I now wonder how one celebrates this occassion. We watch the Republican presidential candidates and the White House give out carefully worded statements that appear to be complimentary, but when you look at them are not.\u00c2\u00a0 McCain, [&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-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","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=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}