{"id":2658,"date":"2007-10-31T19:28:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T02:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/31\/thought-of-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T19:28:56","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T02:28:56","slug":"thought-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/31\/thought-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"thought of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we can acknowledge something here and now.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgay.com\/bnews\/news71031_republican_resigns_after_gay_sex_scandal.htm\">Spokane, Washington has a thriving closeted gay community<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (So much so a La Center man will traffic over there.)<\/p>\n<p>(As though torn from today&#8217;s headlines,<a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/223201_west06.html\"> this headline<\/a>, from 2005.)<\/p>\n<p>And Larry Craig has certainly crossed the Idaho border before&#8230; or is that activity confined to Minneapolis bathroom stalls?<\/p>\n<p>Not to go all &#8220;Brokeback Mountain&#8221; on you, but maybe all munipicipalities have &#8220;thriving gay communities&#8221; &#8212; it just so happens that only a handful of zip-codes might elect one to a political position, hence&#8230; a thriving closeted gay community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we can acknowledge something here and now.\u00c2\u00a0 Spokane, Washington has a thriving closeted gay community.\u00c2\u00a0 (So much so a La Center man will traffic over there.) (As though torn from today&#8217;s headlines, this headline, from 2005.) And Larry Craig has certainly crossed the Idaho border before&#8230; or is that activity confined to Minneapolis [&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-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","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=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}