{"id":3080,"date":"2008-09-13T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/13\/in-bed-with\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T15:42:58","slug":"in-bed-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/13\/in-bed-with\/","title":{"rendered":"In Bed With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people say &#8220;literally&#8221;, as in &#8220;Governement Officials are Literally in Bed with the\u00c2\u00a0Energy and Oil\u00c2\u00a0Industries&#8221;, it usually means &#8220;Figuratively but&#8230; HARDCORE FIGURATIVELY.&#8221; But, apparently,\u00c2\u00a0somewhere in pursuing\u00c2\u00a0Cocaine, Crystal Meth, and having some very wild parties, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilweek.com\/news.asp?ID=18528\">the literal bed sharing has taken place here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knew the Department of the Interior was so &#8230; so&#8230; so&#8230; wild?\u00c2\u00a0 <strong>THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR!!!<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s like the Audio &#8211; Visual Club of the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now we know how the government works.\u00c2\u00a0 So often these metaphors pass through a prism out of a past where its literal meaning was intact.\u00c2\u00a0 We have come full circle here.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, it might be more interesting, perhaps less corrupt even, if we just legally sanction this as the way the nation goes about its business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people say &#8220;literally&#8221;, as in &#8220;Governement Officials are Literally in Bed with the\u00c2\u00a0Energy and Oil\u00c2\u00a0Industries&#8221;, it usually means &#8220;Figuratively but&#8230; HARDCORE FIGURATIVELY.&#8221; But, apparently,\u00c2\u00a0somewhere in pursuing\u00c2\u00a0Cocaine, Crystal Meth, and having some very wild parties, the literal bed sharing has taken place here.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knew the Department of the Interior was so &#8230; so&#8230; so&#8230; [&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-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}